Sentences with word «multiculturalist»

Introduction:... multiculturalists who strive to constitute non-discriminatory minority identities can not simply do so by affirming the place they occupy, or by returning to an «unmarked» authentic origin or pre-text: their recognition requires the negotiation of a dangerous indeterminacy, since the too - visible presence of the other underwrites the authentic national subject but can never...

Since moving to the U.S. from Pakistan in the mid -»90s, Shahzia Sikander has pushed through boundaries corroded by decades of multiculturalist rhetoric with an artistic practice that reimagines the connections between Eastern experiences and Western perspectives.

In the UK, for example, Tony Blair had an intellectual relationship with sociologist Anthony Giddens — the author of many textbooks and «third - way», communitarian and multiculturalist policy ideas.

In my experience, very few professors and university administrators buy into Marxism, multiculturalist ideologies, or other forms of academic radicalism.

As everywhere else in liberal Protestantism, its central headquarters is staffed by modish theological bureaucrats in thrall to the latest liberationist, feminist, and multiculturalist whims.

When the Culture Wars spread through the humanities, the more thoughtful multiculturalists argued for a richer and more diverse sense of the past.

There is today a curious and dangerous convergence between philosophical nihilists and radical multiculturalists, on the one hand, and, on the other, those states that reject the idea of universal human rights as an instance of cultural imperialism.

Were postwar Catholics and Jews the first multiculturalists?

Frankenmuth, indeed, was multicultural before multiculturalism was invented» though its bedrock conservatism would not likely recommend it to most multiculturalists.

Ultimately, however, the greatest testimony to the «Greek spirit» so oft derided by the postmodernist or multiculturalist critic is the critic himself, whose life and mind are what they are because of the Greeks....

For a few examples: the protection of the unborn, the handicapped, and the dying; parental choice in education; tax and other policies supportive of marriage and the family; the defense of individual merit against quotas and related discriminations; the defense of property, civil, and religious rights against expansivist government control; and the vigorous affirmation of the achievements of Western culture, in opposition to multiculturalist fashions.

Even modest programs of redistributionism have been abandoned as intellectuals on the left have wasted their energies in promoting multiculturalist distractions, obscurantist cultural studies that have turned the academy into a narcissistic playpen, and communitarian platitudes that claim to bridge the divide between left and right.

We can seek allies among adherents of other faiths, among deconstructionists, among feminists, among animal liberationsists, among environmentalists, among multiculturalists, among liberationists, and among humanists in formulating these assumptions and together point the directions in which a society based on these other assumptions would move.

Stone advances but one, the notion that Alexander was an early multiculturalist, who wanted to «unify» the globe.

Even when something unpleasant is dealt with, it is done so indirectly, vaguely, and only if it can be presented within an acceptable multiculturalist framework.

If multiculturalism is to promote the flourishing of a diversity of particularities, then multiculturalists» support for vouchers would seem to necessarily follow.

We are not quite a melting pot, but neither are we - to continue the culinary metaphor, as Huntington labels the melting pot (though it originally referred to the smelting of metals)- a salad of distinct components, each maintaining its difference, as multiculturalists would have it.

There are also the Orthodox, the post-liberals, the liturgical traditionalists, the multiculturalists, the institutionalists, and those primarily interested in spirituality or in bodily and emotional healing.

Again, in this regard Bloom shares common ground with those multiculturalists who, in relativizing all cultures, undermine the logic of attachment to any one of them over the other.

So it is that multiculturalists are forever discovering superiorities in other cultures, oblivious to the fact that, in the larger human story, Western culture is singular in its eagerness to praise and learn from other cultures.

«Piecing together Breivik's various posts on the Internet, many media reports have characterized the terrorist — who says he was upset over the multiculturalist policies stemming from Norway's Labour Party — as a «right - wing, Christian fundamentalist.»

The emergence of a multiculturalist, strongly feminist «Barthian» trend in theology is a most welcome development in a field that has known more than its share of stodgy antifeminists.

The controversy in the United States over multiculturalism in and beyond education has now faded» perhaps because Nathan Glazer is right that «we're all multiculturalists now.»

«ask a multiculturalist?»

They flourish in the global economy, and they're comfortable with a multiculturalist ideology.

To suggest that they should give up their lying, thieving, filthy ways might imply that they should become more like us, and that would violate every canon in the multiculturalist code.

«The Black White Supremacist,» May 25, 2003 «The greatest twist of Leo Felton's career as a revolutionary is that after years of effort to win white America over from multiculturalism to racism, the one person he managed to convert was Erica Chase, a racist he has turned into a multiculturalist.»

«It's not necessarily Islam - sometimes it's our cultural sensitivities, our multiculturalist approach that says let's treat these people as separate blocs and let's listen to often unrepresentative bodies that pretend to represent them,» he told Today.

Loveless recalls the whole - language vs. phonics battle in reading instruction; project - based learning vs. content - oriented instruction in science; problem solving vs. computation skills in math; and multiculturalist, «national - sins» history vs. Eurocentric versions (He doesn't use the term «Eurocentric,» but it's implied).

«First she angered the Marxist historians, and later the fans of progressive education and the multiculturalists,» said Jeffrey E. Mirel, a professor of education and history at the University of Michigan.

We're multiculturalists.

A multiculturalist vogue brought women and African - American artists into the spotlight.

By the mid-1990s, the multiculturalist movement had hit its peak; activists and artists decried white privilege while expanding marginalized peoples» representations in cultural institutions.

In this time, I have become a multiculturalist mental health professional with holistic foundations.