Includes bibliographical references (pages [281]-302) and index.
Preface: Commitment and Action / Diane Carson -- 1. Struggling for America's Soul: A Search for Some Common Ground in the Multicultural Debate / Lester D. Friedman -- 2. Film as Ethnography and Cultural Critique in the Late Twentieth Century / Michael M. J. Fischer -- 3. Cultural Rhetoric, Difference, and the Teaching of Writing / Margaret Himley and Delia C. Temes -- 4. Letting Go: Resistance and Transformation in the English Curriculum / Linda Dittmar -- 5. Teaching Multiculturalism from the Movies: Health and Social Well-Being / Clarence Spigner -- 6. Media and Education in a Multicultural Society: A Historian's Perspective / Carlos E. Cortes