The Limits of Cultural Studies

Saldívar, José David

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“…The critical incident described in this article also reveals missteps related to false assumptions of cultural homogeneity (Brody, 2003;Saldivar, 1990). Such assumptions are created by superficially generalizing specific cultural practices, traits, and interests to all members of a larger ethnic group or nationality, without realizing that there are distinct differences within those groups.…”

Section: Critical Reflectionmentioning

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Unraveling the Yarn: Self-Reflection, Critical Incidents, and Missteps Leading to Continued Growth as a Culturally Sensitive Art Educator

Broome

2014

Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education

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Teacher reflection has been shown to have a positive influence on educators’ professional growth. This article features the author’s autobiographical reflection on his eight years working at an elementary school within a predominantly migrant Mexican American community, with specific attention paid to his mistakes while implementing a lesson on the indigenous Huichol culture of Mexico. Through the author’s critical self-reflection, a number of common missteps in multicultural instruction are discussed, including the selection of lessons that call for shallow reproductions of cultural artifacts, the error of false assumptions of cultural homogeneity, and the culturally-insensitive practice of assuming privileged roles of academic authority that treat indigenous people as exoticized subjects unable to describe themselves and their lived experiences. The article concludes with a synthesis of lessons learned from the author’s errors, and encourages other educators to engage in similar teacher reflection to further their own growth as culturally sensitive educators.

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Section: Critical Reflectionmentioning

confidence: 89%

Unraveling the Yarn: Self-Reflection, Critical Incidents, and Missteps Leading to Continued Growth as a Culturally Sensitive Art Educator

Broome

2014

Journal of Cultural Research in Art Education

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The postmodern ethnic condition in Ernesto Quiñónez’s Bodega Dreams

Barajas

2014

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Commentary: Domesticating Foreign Policy

Kaplan¹

1994

Diplomatic History

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One significant contribution of cultural studies has been to analyze critically the formation of academic disciplines, both as discourses and as institutions. This tendency has emerged in part from the need to study "culture," in its myriad definitions, within a new interdisciplinary context that goes beyond the traditional approach of adding the insights, materials, and methodologies of one discrete field to another. Instead, scholars draw on the inquiries of one field to interrogate the boundaries of another, to explore its unspoken ideological underpinnings, and to ask what has been omitted and excluded in order to organize the coherence of the field. This approach involves a self-reflexive account of the disciplines not as natural descriptions of the world but as social constructions or representations that embody unarticulated assumptions about power relations.The essays featured in this symposium offer such a critical perspective on the discipline of diplomatic history by challenging the fundamental dichotomy that has structured the field: the opposition between foreign relations and domestic relations. By yoking together gender and culture, however, the organization of the symposium risks implicitly upholding the hierarchy embedded in this binary opposition if gender as an analytical category enters diplomatic history only through the aegis of culture, and culture becomes an issue primarily in understanding gender. This commentary will suggest how a critical analysis might further examine the structural opposition between the domestic and the foreign; how the categories of gender and of culture posed by this symposium might be at work both in constituting and in criticizing this dichotomy; and how additional questions of representation, nationalism, race, and ethnicity might complicate this basic opposition. As an outsider to the field, I will only draw out general questions for further inquiry suggested by the very rich essays under discussion.Before turning to diplomatic history, let me briefly sketch how the interdisciplinary tendency of cultural studies has drawn on changes in the fields of anthropology and literary criticism to reconceptualize their working definitions of culture, and how these changes have markedly influenced the field of American studies, which could be further enriched by the study of 97

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The Limits of Cultural Studies

Cited by 32 publications

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Unraveling the Yarn: Self-Reflection, Critical Incidents, and Missteps Leading to Continued Growth as a Culturally Sensitive Art Educator

Unraveling the Yarn: Self-Reflection, Critical Incidents, and Missteps Leading to Continued Growth as a Culturally Sensitive Art Educator

The postmodern ethnic condition in Ernesto Quiñónez’s Bodega Dreams

Commentary: Domesticating Foreign Policy

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