LEVELS OF MEANING OF
MULTICULTURALISM
As
Fact |
As
Ideology |
As
Policy |
As
Practice |
As
Critical Discourse |
Descriptive
and empirical statement of what is [descriptive reality] |
Prescriptive
and projective statement of what ought to be in terms of ideas and ideals |
Explicit
government initiatives to foster social equality, cultural diversity, and
national interests |
Putting
multicultural-ism into practice at two levels: 1)
political 2)
minority women and men |
Challenge,
resist, and transform the distribution of cultural power in society
[institutional power-sharing between ethnoracial groups] |
CRITICAL
MULTICULTURALISM
CRITICAL MULTICULTUALISM EMPHASIZES THE
PRINCIPLE THAT PEOPLE ARE FUNDAMENTALLY EQUAL, AND MAKES THIS THE
BASIS FOR CHALLENGING HOW POWER AND PRIVILEGE ARE DISTRIBUTED AND HOW HISTORY
AND LITERATURE ARE TAUGHT.
IS A COUNTER-HEGEMONIC
PROJECT THAT SEEKS TO CHALLENGE SOCIAL AUTHORITY, RESIST
WHITE HEGEMONY, AND TRANSFORM SOCIETY BY CREATING SPACE FOR OTHER
CULTURES.
[LIFE COMPLEX == FINDING UNITY IN OUR
DIFFERENCE]
[*IN ORDER TO DO THE ABOVE, “THE MULTICULTURALIST” HAS TO “INTERVENE IN THE STATUS
QUO”]