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Peer reviewedPaul, Lissa – Language Arts, 2000
Offers a critical reading of a text used in Ontario, Canada, in a province-wide sixth-grade testing program, finding it representative of a genre called "Boutique multiculturalism," which fails as literature and fails as an inclusive text because it is emptied of all specific social, cultural, and historical content. (SR)
Descriptors: Cultural Awareness, Cultural Differences, Cultural Pluralism, Evaluation Research
