This essay collection considers: the relationship between pedagogy and media literacy; the intersection of critical pedagogy with postmodernism, race, the politics of desire and post-colonialism; and the question of representation with respect to popular culture, the arts and the state.

Introduction: Bringin’ It All Back Home—Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, Lawrence Grossberg; Part 1 Racism, Democracy, and the Pedagogy of Representation; Chapter 1 Living Dangerously: Identity Politics and the New Cultural Racism, Henry A. Giroux; Chapter 2 Intellectuals, Power and Quality Television, Ava Collins; Chapter 3 Rethinking the Public Sphere: a Contribution to the Critique of Actually Existing Democracy, Nancy Fraser; Part 2 Desire, Audience, and the Politics of Cultural Memory; Chapter 4 The Education of Young Artists and The Issue of Audience, Carol Becker; Chapter 5 Eros, Eroticism, and the Pedagogical Process, Bell Hooks; Chapter 6 Be like Mike? Michael Jordan and the Pedagogy of Desire, Michael Eric Dyson; Chapter 7 Forms of Insurgency in the Production of Popular Memories: The Columbus Quincentenary and The Pedagogy of Counter-Commemoration, Roger I. Simon; Part 3 Insurgent Multi-culturalism and the Journey into Difference; Chapter 8 On Race and Voice: Challenges for Liberal Education in the 1990s, Chandra Talpade Mohanty; Chapter 9 School’s Out, Simon Watney; Chapter 10 Multiculturalism and Oppositionality, Michele Wallace; Chapter 11 Multiculturalism and the Postmodern Critique: Toward a Pedagogy of Resistance and Transformation, Peter McLaren; Part 4 Nationalism, Post-colonialism, and the Border Intellectual; Chapter 12 Nationalities, Pedagogies, and Media, David Trend; Chapter 13 Some Implications of Paulo’s Freire’s Border Pedagogy, Abdul R. JanMohamed; Chapter 14 Decolonization as Learning: Practice and Pedagogy in Frantz Fanon’s Revolutionary Narrative, Kenneth Mostern;

"The conception of Between Borders is a prime example of praxis in action. Giroux and Peter McLaren participate as editors in an effort to open up a space in which different voices, ones that have dramatically influenced these authors' own work, are able to represent themselves. . . Those interested in the relationship between pedagogy and cultural studies are well served by Larry Grossberg's excellent introduction to the book." -- Pepi Leistyna, Harvard Educational Review