Title: Multiculturalism : roots and realities /
Authors: Trotman, C. James, 1943-
Publisher: Indiana University Press,
Year: 2002
Subjects: African Americans Social conditions; African Americans Intellectual life; African Americans Race identity; Cultural pluralism United States History; African Americans in literature; Cultural pluralism in literature.; Race relations in literature.; American literature African American authors History and criticism; American literature History and criticism; United States Race relations
Contents: Introduction. multiculturalism : roots and realities / C. James Trotman -- "The lives grown out of his life" : Frederick Douglass, multiculturalism, and diversity / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Frederick Douglass's American "we" / Julie Husband -- Adding her testimony : Harriet Jacobs's incidents as testimonial literature / Jeannine Delombard -- Water rites : navigating passage and social transformation in American slave and travel narratives / Richard Hardack -- James Forten and "the gentlemen of the pave" : race, wealth, and power in antebellum Philadelphia / Julie Winch -- David Walker, African rights, and liberty / Verner D. Mitchell -- African-American protest and the role of the Haitian pavilion at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / Barbara J. Ballard -- Race, womanhood, and the tragic mulatta : an issue of ambiguity / Christine Palumbo-Desimone -- "My sisters toil" : voice in anti-slavery poetry by white female factory workers / Susan Alves -- Enacting culture : Zora Neale Hurston, Joel Chandler Harris, and literary anthropology / Juniper Ellis -- Abby Kelley Foster : a feminist voice reconsidered, 1810-1887 / Richard E. Greene -- African-American childhood in early Philadelphia / Janet Harrison Shannon -- Border controls of race and gender : Crane's The monster and Chesnutt's The conjure woman / Matthew Wilson -- "Moral authority," history, and the case of canonization : William Wells Brown's Clotel and Clotelle / Gillian Johns -- Mark Twain and the multicultural imagination / Joe B. Fulton.