American multicultural studies : diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality / [edited by] Sherrow O. Pinder.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinder, Sherrow O.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Multiculturalism--United States.

Multiculturalism.

United States.

Cultural pluralism--United States.

Cultural pluralism.

Ethnicity--United States.

Ethnicity.

Multicultural education--United States.

Multicultural education.

Physical Description:

xxiii, 516 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications, [2013]

Summary:

Pinder (California State U., Chico) assembles 29 essays that take an interdisciplinary look at multicultural studies in the US and the topics that define the field, with the aim of developing new ways of addressing how multicultural issues are linked to operations of power. North American and European researchers working in fields such as women's studies, political science, sociology, literature, cultural studies, communication studies, anthropology, and philosophy tackle various areas, beginning with theorizing and expanding on issues that have shaped the field, such as Afrocentrist and postmodernist discourses on blackness and disability studies in multicultural studies. Sections then cover race, with discussion of nonviolence in the documentary Eyes on the Prize, transnational and transracial adoptees, and the past censorship of multiracial relationships in Hollywood; ethnicity, including Black and Asian relations in the context of white dominance and the construction of Syrian American identity; gender, with essays on Josephine Baker, Rima Fakih, and Sarah Baartman; sexuality, including marriage and and the absence of African American churches in the same-sex marriage debate; cultural diversity, such as mixed race identities in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman and Fox Girl, visual rhetoric and political reality in presidential campaigns, and the gypsy punk counterculture; and education, with discussion of speech and language impairments in the context of fluency-dominated cultures, references to women in social studies textbooks, multicultural and integrated arts education, and multicultural education and sexual diversity. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781412998024

1412998026

OCLC:

780481540