Cultural Literacy

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The Institute of Identity Research
http://www.idmap.net/
The Institute of Identity Research
An interdisciplinary Institute dedicated to acquire comparative data on the topic of ethnicity and identity.

Test Your Cultural Literacy
http://www.bostonreview.net/BR14.1/culturaltest.html
Test Your Cultural Literacy

Cultural Literacy
http://powayusd.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/projects/multicultural/
Cultural Literacy
The best lessons for cultural literacy come from the many students who sit in front of us each day in our classrooms. Their cultures, heritage, and stories formulate the most powerful cultural literacy curriculum.
This site of links to lessons and resources has been developed to support cultural literacy instruction and honor the richness of our diverse heritage. As we celebrate holidays and engage in the study of these cultures, may we develop stronger commitments to unity and peace.

Multicultural Literacy
http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/21stcent/cultural.html
Multicultural literacy is knowledge of cultures and languages, as well as the ways in which multi-sensory data (text, sound, and graphics) may introduce slant, perspective, and bias into language, subject matter, and visual content. We live in multiculural societies, teach in multicultural settings, and our students often interact with those who come from a different place in terms of gender, rural or urban environments, nationalistically, linguistically, racially, and religiously.
Multicultural literacy may be considered a meta-framework with the potential for integration across curricula. In many of the information literacy lessons on this site, strategies for integrating multicultural thinking will be added on a pale orange block

Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
http://www.bartleby.com/59/
Dictionary of Cultural Literacy
The manifestation of one of the most influential modern educational theories, the 6,900 entries in this major new reference work form the touchstone of what it means to be not only just a literate American but an active citizen in our multicultural democracy.
As E.D. Hirsch pointed out, when readers don't understand the cultural allusions writers use, the text becomes meaningless for them.