American multicultural studies : diversity of race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality /
Pinder, Sherrow O.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : SAGE Publications,
c2013.
"American Multicultural Studies: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality provides an interdisciplinary view of multicultural studies in the United States, addressing a wide range of topics that continue to define and shape this area of study. This collection of essays responds to the need to open up a rich avenue for addressing current and continuing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cultural diversity, and education in their varied forms. Substantial thematic overlaps are found between sections and essays, all of which are oriented toward a single broad objective: to develop new and different ways of addressing how multicultural issues, in their discursive sociocultural contexts, are inextricably linked to the operations of power. Power, as a site of resistance to which it invariably gives rise, is tacked from a perspective that attends to the complexities of America's history and politics."--Publisher's website.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: The concept and definition of American multicultural studies / Sherrow O. Pinder -- What is black in the melting pot? A critique of afrocentrist and postmodernist discourses on blackness / Babacar M'Baye -- Multicultural rhythms: musical and racial harmony / Kulvinder Arora -- In-between languages: translingual living and writing in the United States / Paola Bohórquez -- Ableist colonizations: reframing diability in multicultural studies / Cindy LaCom -- Ontological violence and American cultural psyche: a psychoanalytic inquiry of an American cultural identity / Kevin Johnson -- The political efficacy of nonviolence in Eyes of the prize: creating activist, complicating tactics / Jennifer J. Asenas -- Transnational and transracial adoption: multiculturalism, and selective color-blindness / Jenny Heijun Wills -- Race, sex, and Hollywood: black men and white women censored / Nicole Amber Haggard -- Multiculturalism, women, and the need for a feminist analysis / Cynthia S. Bynoe and Sherrow O. Pinder -- Claiming Sarah Baartman: black womanhood in the global imaginary / Thelma Pinto -- "Assimilation in a bikini": the unveiling, reveiling, and disciplining of Rima Fakih / Mariam Esseghaier -- Sensing race and gender in contemporary postcolonial art / Mariangela Orabona -- J'ai deux amours: Josephine Baker and the duality of identity in the Unites States and Paris, France / Yvonne D. Sims -- The indigenous soul wounding: understanding culture, memetics, complexity, and emergence / Wendy M. K. Peters -- Triangulated threat: a model of black and Asian race relations in a context of white dominance / John Tawa, Karen L. Suyemoto, and Jesse J. Tauriac -- Rooted in our homeland: the construction of Syrian American identity / Sarah Hanbar -- Redescribing the Redskin controversy: multiculturalism, working-class Habitus, and the mascot's enduring popularity / Christopher B. Zeichmann and Nathanael P. Romero -- "I do," therefore I am: marriage as institutionalized passing / Elizabeth Renfro -- Marriage as commitment: a revisionary argument / Mara Marin -- Mut'ah as social contract / Helen Lindberg -- The absence of African American churches in the same-sex marriage battle: why not at the front lines? / Henry Zomerfeld and Kyeonghi Baek -- Multi Kontra Culti: the gypsy punk counterculture / Alan Ashton-Smith -- The power of language in the construction and representation of mixed-race identities in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort woman and Fox girl / Cynthia Lytle -- Can we? Visual rhetoric and political reality in American presidential campaigns / Jürgen Heinrichs --Chicano visualities: a multicultural rewriting of Californian spatialities / Eduardo Barros Grela -- Rethinking speech and language impairments within fluency-dominated cultures / Nicholas Daniel Hartlep and Antonio L. Ellis -- Color-blindsided at the intersection of multicultural and integrated arts education / Teresa L. Cotner -- A comparison of teacher perceptions on and textbook references to women's representation in high school social studies textbooks / Christine Dobbins and Mark Melissa -- Multicultural studies and sexual diversity: a postmodern queer(y) for all / Sean Robinson.
Theorizing issue concerning American multicultural studies -- Race -- Gender -- Ethnicity -- Sexuality -- Cultural diversity -- Education.
"American Multicultural Studies: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality provides an interdisciplinary view of multicultural studies in the United States, addressing a wide range of topics that continue to define and shape this area of study. This collection of essays responds to the need to open up a rich avenue for addressing current and continuing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cultural diversity, and education in their varied forms. Substantial thematic overlaps are found between sections and essays, all of which are oriented toward a single broad objective: to develop new and different ways of addressing how multicultural issues, in their discursive sociocultural contexts, are inextricably linked to the operations of power. Power, as a site of resistance to which it invariably gives rise, is tacked from a perspective that attends to the complexities of America's history and politics."--Publisher's website.
Multiculturalism
Cultural pluralism
Ethnicity
Multicultural education