White noise: The attack on political correctness and the struggle for the Western Canon

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Volumn 28, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 283-329

  Cope, Bill ^a   Kalantzis, Mary ^b  

^a Centre for Workplace Communication and Culture   (Australia)

^b RMIT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Higher education; Multiculturalism; Political correctness; The Canon

Indexed keywords

EID: 33749659347     PISSN: 08264805     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1007483416121     Document Type: Article

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