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Teaching Race With a Gendered Edge:

Hipfl, Brigitte ; Loftsdottir, Kristin
ISBN-10: 6155225052
ISBN-13: 9786155225055

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List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Teaching "Race" with a Gendered Edge-Introduction
Racism and gender-historical background
Colonial legacies and migration
Problematising "white" Western feminism and whiteness
Spaces of / for change
The chapters in the book
Thematic Explorations
Breaking the Canon? Critical Reflections on "Other" Literary Traditions
Introduction
Towards an alternative canon: Multiculturalism and diversity
The canon and the cultural industry
Race, gender and diversity in the canon: Toni Morrison
Beloved
Conclusion: Beyond the colour-line of the canon?
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
Monumental Dresses: Coming to Terms with Racial Repression
Sexual difference and transitional justice
The woman who kept silent
The poetics of scrap
Implications for teaching: Working with exemplary case studies
Questions
Assignments
Embodying Otherness while Teaching Race and Gender at White European Universities
Introduction
Becoming educated in (post) colonial European society
Teaching about emotionally charged topics
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
Expressions of Racism and Gender in National and Historical Contexts
Disappearing Act: The Forgotten History of Colonialism, Eugenics and Gendered Othering in Denmark
The colonial relationship that never was
Identifying the difference-gene
Exhibiting exclusion
"Religion is not a race"
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
Portugal and the Empire: Discourses and Practices on Race and Gender
Grasping Portuguese colonial "exception"
Racial-gendered relations in imperial history
The making of the "gentler colonialists"
Post-colonial reverberations
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
The French Ban on Headscarves: Rendering Racism Respectable
Introduction
Situating the 2004 Act
Civilising the "uncivilised"
Gendering the colonial other
Feminist critique of the ban: "Une �cole pour Tous et pour Toutes"
Concluding remarks
Implications for teaching
Questions and assignments
Racial/Ethnic Otherness in Polish Public Discourse
Conceptualising the racial other in Polish culture
The ethnic and religious composition of Polish society: An historical perspective
Legal framework
Cultural racism
Towards the future
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
"Not a Country for Women, nor for Blacks": Teaching Race and Gender in Italy between Colonial Heritages and New Perspectives
Marketing the "other"
"Second generations" and the role of education
New perspectives: Teaching race and gender today
Implications for teaching
Questions
Assignments
List of Contributors

Edition: 2012
Publisher: Central European Univ Pr
Binding: Trade Paper
Pages: 172
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.25" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.75 lbs.
Language: English

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