Contentious Curricula: Afrocentrism and Creationism in American Public Schools (Princeton Studies in Cultural Sociology)
Winner of the 2003 Best Book Award, American Sociology AssociationWinner of the Distinguished Scholarship Award, Pacific Sociological AssociationWinner of the Outstanding Book Award, American Educational Research Association"[A] provocative and engaging book. . . . As different as the two movements and their constituents were, Binder astutely shows that both used the rhetoric of pluralism, among other shared tactics, to make their cases."--Teacher"A useful addition to the corpus of social movement studies. Amy Binder presents a valuable analysis of attempts to change an institution."--Joseph R. Gusfield,Contemporary Sociology"Definitely worth reading, both as a good introduction to the literature on social movements and to what such analyses can bring to scholarship on the politics of educational reforms. It also has significant things to say both to those of us who are concerned about how the extension of democracy can function in paradoxical ways in education and to those readers who have a commitment to understanding the complexities of cultural pluralism and multiculturalism."--Michael Apple,Educational Policy"Binder carefully considers the scholarly literature of social movements and makes a contribution to it by examining social movements focusing on the impact of these movements on subnational governmental units."--Choice