Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles

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Title

Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles

Abstract/Description

In Learning from Experience, Paula Moya offers an alternative to some influential philosophical assumptions about identity and experience in contemporary literary theory. Arguing that the texts and lived experiences of subordinated people are rich sources of insight about our society, Moya presents a nuanced universalist justification for identity-based work in ethnic studies.

This strikingly original book provides eloquent analyses of such postmodernist feminists as Judith Butler, Donna Haraway, Norma Alarcón, and Chela Sandoval, and counters the assimilationist proposals of minority neoconservatives such as Shelby Steele and Richard Rodriguez. It advances realist proposals for multicultural education and offers an understanding of the interpretive power of Chicana feminists including Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Helena María Viramontes. Learning from Experience enlarges our concept of identity and offers new ways to situate aspects of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation in discursive and sociopolitical contexts.

Author/creator

Moya, Paula M. L.

Date

2002

Publisher

University of California Press

Resource type

en Background/Context

Medium

en Print

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Open access/free-text available

en No

Peer reviewed

en No

Language

en

ISBN

978-0-520-23014-9

URL

Official Publisher's Webpage (University of California Press)

Citation

Moya, P. M. L. (2002). Learning from Experience: Minority Identities, Multicultural Struggles. University of California Press.

Cited in

Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research

Rights

Available worldwide

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