Multi-America
Subtitle: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace
Contributors: Ishmael Reed (Editor)
Publisher: Viking Adult; Viking
Published: April 1, 1997
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9780670867530
Subjects: Social conditions; Multiculturalism; Culture; Ethnic Sociology; United States; Sociology; Pluralism (Social sciences); Anthropology - Cultural; Minority Studies - Ethnic American; Political Science / General; Ethnic relations
Description: Multi-America is an unprecedented, unpredictable and absolutely refreshing anthology. Ishmael Reed has brought together a rainbow collection of ethnic Americans to challenge the communications oligopolies that have dominated the discussion of race in this country. It provides perspectives from points of view that have been omitted from the discussion of race in the United States: African American, Native American, Asian American and Euro-ethnic, Italian American, Irish American, etc.

These marginalized voices speak out on a broad spectrum of topics: an Irish American discusses what has been lost in assimilation; an Afrocentrist responds to the one-sided depiction of Afrocentrism; Latinos discuss the violent racial conflicts between blacks and Latinos. They represent, for the first time, the authentic voice of the new Rainbow America.