American Multicultural Studies

Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality
Sherrow O. Pinder
American Multicultural Studies
July 2012 | 544 pages | Sage US
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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.

Contents

Introduction: The Concept and Definition of American Multicultural Studies

Introduction: The Concept and Definition of American Multicultural Studies

Theorizing Issues Concerning American Multicultural Studies

  • What is Black in the Melting Pot? A Critique of Afrocentrist and Postmodernist Discourses on Blackness
  • Multicultural Rhythms: Musical and Racial Harmony
  • In-Between Languages: Translingual Living and Writing in the United States
  • Ableist Colonizations: Re-framing Disability in Multicultural Studies
  • Ontological Violence and American Cultural Psyche: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry of an American Cultural Identity

Race

  • The Past as Rhetorical Resource for Resistance: Remembering Nonviolence in Eyes on the Prize
  • Transnational Adoption, Paradoxical Essentialism, and Obama-Era Racial Politics in America
  • Race, Sex and Hollywood: Black Men and White Women Censored

Gender

  • Multiculturalism, Women, and the Need for a Feminist Analysis
  • Claiming Sarah Baartman: Black Womanhood in the Global Imaginary
  • Assimilation in a Bikini:” The Re-Veiling and Disciplining of Rima Fakih, the First Muslim-Arab Woman to Win Miss USA
  • Sensing Race and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Art
  • “I Have Two Loves”: Josephine Baker and the Duality of Identity in the United States and France

Ethnicity

  • Indigenous Soul Wounding and Memetic Development: A Personal Exploration of Cultural Emergence
  • Blacks’ and Asians’ Intergroup Perceptions and Stereotypes: Implications for moving beyond a binary analysis of race-relations
  • al-Mahjar: Little Syria and the Creation of Syrian-American Identity, 1890-1940
  • Redescribing the Redskin Controversy: Cultural Sensitivity, Working-Class Habitus, and the Mascot’s Enduring Popularity

Sexuality

  • Saying I Do: Marriage as Institutionalized Passing
  • Marriage, Sex and Subordination
  • Mut’ah as Social Contract - Consent and Reciprocity in an Islamic Sexual Contract
  • The Absence of African-American Churches in the Same Sex Marriage Battle: Why Not at the Frontlines of the Same-Sex Marriage Battle?

Cultural Diversity

  • Multi Kontra Culti: The Gypsy Punk Counterculture
  • The Power of Language in Mixed-Race Identities in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman and Fox Girl
  • Can We? Reality and representation of social and political change in American visual discourse
  • Graffiti Art and Chicano Visualities: A Multicultural Rewriting of Californian Spatialities

Education

  • Rethinking Speech and Language Impairments within Fluency Dominated Cultures
  • Color-Blindsided at the Intersection of Culture and Curriculum Integration in Art
  • Complicit in their in their own marginalization: Teacher perceptions on women’s representation in 11th grade U.S. History textbooks
  • Multicultural Studies & Sexual Diversity: A Postmodern Queer(y) for All

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Description

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.

Contents

Introduction: The Concept and Definition of American Multicultural Studies

Introduction: The Concept and Definition of American Multicultural Studies

Theorizing Issues Concerning American Multicultural Studies

  • What is Black in the Melting Pot? A Critique of Afrocentrist and Postmodernist Discourses on Blackness
  • Multicultural Rhythms: Musical and Racial Harmony
  • In-Between Languages: Translingual Living and Writing in the United States
  • Ableist Colonizations: Re-framing Disability in Multicultural Studies
  • Ontological Violence and American Cultural Psyche: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry of an American Cultural Identity

Race

  • The Past as Rhetorical Resource for Resistance: Remembering Nonviolence in Eyes on the Prize
  • Transnational Adoption, Paradoxical Essentialism, and Obama-Era Racial Politics in America
  • Race, Sex and Hollywood: Black Men and White Women Censored

Gender

  • Multiculturalism, Women, and the Need for a Feminist Analysis
  • Claiming Sarah Baartman: Black Womanhood in the Global Imaginary
  • Assimilation in a Bikini:” The Re-Veiling and Disciplining of Rima Fakih, the First Muslim-Arab Woman to Win Miss USA
  • Sensing Race and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Art
  • “I Have Two Loves”: Josephine Baker and the Duality of Identity in the United States and France

Ethnicity

  • Indigenous Soul Wounding and Memetic Development: A Personal Exploration of Cultural Emergence
  • Blacks’ and Asians’ Intergroup Perceptions and Stereotypes: Implications for moving beyond a binary analysis of race-relations
  • al-Mahjar: Little Syria and the Creation of Syrian-American Identity, 1890-1940
  • Redescribing the Redskin Controversy: Cultural Sensitivity, Working-Class Habitus, and the Mascot’s Enduring Popularity

Sexuality

  • Saying I Do: Marriage as Institutionalized Passing
  • Marriage, Sex and Subordination
  • Mut’ah as Social Contract - Consent and Reciprocity in an Islamic Sexual Contract
  • The Absence of African-American Churches in the Same Sex Marriage Battle: Why Not at the Frontlines of the Same-Sex Marriage Battle?

Cultural Diversity

  • Multi Kontra Culti: The Gypsy Punk Counterculture
  • The Power of Language in Mixed-Race Identities in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman and Fox Girl
  • Can We? Reality and representation of social and political change in American visual discourse
  • Graffiti Art and Chicano Visualities: A Multicultural Rewriting of Californian Spatialities

Education

  • Rethinking Speech and Language Impairments within Fluency Dominated Cultures
  • Color-Blindsided at the Intersection of Culture and Curriculum Integration in Art
  • Complicit in their in their own marginalization: Teacher perceptions on women’s representation in 11th grade U.S. History textbooks
  • Multicultural Studies & Sexual Diversity: A Postmodern Queer(y) for All

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American Multicultural Studies

Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality

Sherrow O. Pinder
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July 2012 | 544 pages | Sage US

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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.


Table Of Contents:

  • A Critical American Multiculturalism for the 21st Century: Avoiding Essentialism or 'Multiculturalism As We Know It
  • A Historical Perspective to Harlem and Negritude Movements in African Nationalism
  • Deconstructing Paradigms: Critical Consciousness, Dialogue, and Reflection in Multicultural Education
  • Prisoner of Love: Jean Genet’s Love Song to the Palestinians
  • Race Portrayals in "Mad Men"
  • Using Drama to Promote Critical Multiculturalism
  • What is Black in the Melting Pot? Race and Ethnicity in Contemporary American Discourses on Multiculturalism and Diversity
  • Globalizing Multicultural Studies through World Music
  • A Different Reading of Institutionalized Violence in the United States: From Reconstruction to Present
  • Why Not at the Frontline? African American Churches and Same Sex-Marriage Battle
  • “I Have Two Loves”: Josephine Baker and the Duality of Identity in the United States and France
  • Ableist Colonizations: Re-framing Disability in Multicultural Studies
  • al-Mahjar: Little Syria and the Creation of Syrian-American Identity, 1890-1940
  • Assimilation in a Bikini:” The Re-Veiling and Disciplining of Rima Fakih, the First Muslim-Arab Woman to Win Miss USA.
  • Blacks’ and Asians’ intergroup perceptions and stereotypes: Implications for moving beyond a binary analysis of race-relations
  • Can we? Reality and Representation of Social and Political Change in American Visual Discourse
  • Claiming Sarah Baartman: Black Womanhood in the Global Imaginary
  • Color-Blindsided at the Intersection of Culture and Curriculum Integration in Art
  • Complicit in their in their own marginalization: Teacher perceptions on women’s representation in 11th grade U.S. History textbooks
  • Graffiti Art and Chicano Visualities: A Multicultural Rewriting of Californian Spatialities
  • Indigenous Soul Wounding and Memetic Development: A Personal Exploration of Cultural Emergence
  • Marriage, Sex and Subordination
  • Multi Kontra Culti: The Gypsy Punk Counterculture
  • Multicultural Education & Sexual Diversity: A Queer(y) for All
  • Mut’ah as Social Contract - Consent and Reciprocity in an Islamic Sexual Contract
  • On Living Between Languages
  • Race, Sex and Hollywood: Black Men and White Women Censored
  • Redescribing the Redskin Controversy: Cultural Sensitivity, Working-Class Habitus, and the Mascot’s Enduring Popularity
  • Rethinking Speech and Language Impairments within Fluency Dominated Cultures
  • Saying I Do: Marriage as Institutionalized Passing
  • Sensing Race and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Art
  • The Past as Rhetorical Resource for Resistance: Remembering Nonviolence in Eyes on the Prize
  • The Power of Language in Mixed-Race Identities in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman and Fox Girl
  • Transnational Adoption, Paradoxical Essentialism, and Obama-Era of Racial Politics in America
  • Ontological Violence and American Multiculturalism: An Analysis of Anti-Illegal Immigration Rhetoric
  • Introduction: The Concept and Definition of American Multicultural Studies
  • Theorizing Issues Concerning American Multicultural Studies
  • What is Black in the Melting Pot? A Critique of Afrocentrist and Postmodernist Discourses on Blackness
  • Multicultural Rhythms: Musical and Racial Harmony
  • In-Between Languages: Translingual Living and Writing in the United States
  • Ableist Colonizations: Re-framing Disability in Multicultural Studies
  • Ontological Violence and American Cultural Psyche: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry of an American Cultural Identity
  • Race
  • The Past as Rhetorical Resource for Resistance: Remembering Nonviolence in Eyes on the Prize
  • Transnational Adoption, Paradoxical Essentialism, and Obama-Era Racial Politics in America
  • Race, Sex and Hollywood: Black Men and White Women Censored
  • Gender
  • Multiculturalism, Women, and the Need for a Feminist Analysis
  • Claiming Sarah Baartman: Black Womanhood in the Global Imaginary
  • Assimilation in a Bikini:” The Re-Veiling and Disciplining of Rima Fakih, the First Muslim-Arab Woman to Win Miss USA
  • Sensing Race and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Art
  • “I Have Two Loves”: Josephine Baker and the Duality of Identity in the United States and France
  • Ethnicity
  • Indigenous Soul Wounding and Memetic Development: A Personal Exploration of Cultural Emergence
  • Blacks’ and Asians’ Intergroup Perceptions and Stereotypes: Implications for moving beyond a binary analysis of race-relations
  • al-Mahjar: Little Syria and the Creation of Syrian-American Identity, 1890-1940
  • Redescribing the Redskin Controversy: Cultural Sensitivity, Working-Class Habitus, and the Mascot’s Enduring Popularity
  • Sexuality
  • Saying I Do: Marriage as Institutionalized Passing
  • Marriage, Sex and Subordination
  • Mut’ah as Social Contract - Consent and Reciprocity in an Islamic Sexual Contract
  • The Absence of African-American Churches in the Same Sex Marriage Battle: Why Not at the Frontlines of the Same-Sex Marriage Battle?
  • Cultural Diversity
  • Multi Kontra Culti: The Gypsy Punk Counterculture
  • The Power of Language in Mixed-Race Identities in Nora Okja Keller’s Comfort Woman and Fox Girl
  • Can We? Reality and representation of social and political change in American visual discourse
  • Graffiti Art and Chicano Visualities: A Multicultural Rewriting of Californian Spatialities
  • Education
  • Rethinking Speech and Language Impairments within Fluency Dominated Cultures
  • Color-Blindsided at the Intersection of Culture and Curriculum Integration in Art
  • Complicit in their in their own marginalization: Teacher perceptions on women’s representation in 11th grade U.S. History textbooks
  • Multicultural Studies & Sexual Diversity: A Postmodern Queer(y) for All

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