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Addresses the worries of the marginalized within the American institution curriculum.
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Following is a list of North/South dichotomies that is adapted from Paul Nachtigal’s (1982) binary construct illuminating the differences in urban versus rural education: Progressive Era South Rural/agrarian Smaller/less density Geographically isolated Tightly linked communities Make do Less spendable income Less formal education Self-sufficiency Protestant hegemony Non-bureaucratic Oral communication Conservative Cultivating land/farming Time measured by seasons Who said it? Progressive Era North Urban/industrial Larger/greater density In close proximity Loosely coupled communities Rational planning More spendable income More formal education Problem solving left to experts Diverse religions Bureaucratic Written communication Liberal Factory labor force Time measured by clocks What’s said?
It is important to deconstruct what Stuart Hall (1999, p. 513) has called the “preferred reading” of popular texts about Parks. This includes readings that “normalize” Parks by setting up neat binaries between “good” and “bad” blacks and whites, or between the REMEMBERING ROSA 33 “bad South” and the “good North,” and it includes liberal readings, where the emphasis is upon winning legalistic rights, narrowly defined. Finally, it is important to ask where we as a nation stand today relative to where we stood a half century ago, when Rosa Parks took that famous bus ride.
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