TY - JOUR
AU - Gotanda, Neil
AB - The Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies Vol. 24:335–351, 2002 Copyright © 2002 Taylor & Francis 1071-4413/02 $12.00 + .00 DOI: 10.1080/10714410290108093 Kris D. Gutiérrez Jolynn Asato Maria Santos Neil Gotanda Backlash Pedagogy: Language and Culture and the Politics of Reform We begin our thoughts about language and education in the twenty-first century by contextualizing them in a paraphrase of Winston Churchill’s famous remarks about Russia: . . . race relations in America [is a] riddle wrapped in a quandary hidden inside a history. We do not fool ourselves into thinking we have solved the riddle. But we do hope we can move our nation a little bit closer to under - standing it” (Steinhorn and Diggs-Brown, 1999, p. xviii). Our intention, as well, is to move our nation a little bit closer to understanding the possibilities that grow from a democratic edu- cation. In this article, we focus on an educational trend we label backlash pedagogy that threatens the possibility of educational achievement and intellectual and social equity for large num- bers of public school students. Susan Faludi (1991) popularized the notion of backlash in her analysis of the war against women. Although she speaks of the 
TI - Backlash Pedagogy: Language and Culture and the Politics of Reform
JF - "Review of Education, Pedagogy, and Cultural Studies"
DO - 10.1080/10714410214744
DA - 2002-01-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/taylor-francis/backlash-pedagogy-language-and-culture-and-the-politics-of-reform-l4qtezHaPE
SP - 335
EP - 351
VL - 24
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -