Producing multiculturalism in higher education: Who’s producing what for whom?
Urciuoli B.
1999
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
29
10.1080/095183999236141
This essay explores ways in which multiculturalism is institutionally produced in a small liberal arts college. When the offices of admissions or student life deploy the categories multiculturalism and diversity, they are likely to seek academic expertise from humanities or African American, Latino, or Women's Studies Programs, the disciplines most closely matching identity slots on the college applicationforms. In doing so, they recreate the presupposed categories of person that shape U.S. perceptions of race. This leaves little room for an anthropological perspective that examines the bases on which concepts of person and social identities are constructed. © 1999, Taylor & Francis Group, LLC. All rights reserved.
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