ISBN:
1443874825
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9781443874823
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
1 Online-Ressource (xxxvi, 529 pages)
Paralleltitel:
Erscheint auch als American multiculturalism in context
DDC:
305.8
Schlagwort(e):
Multiculturalism Congresses
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Multiculturalism Congresses
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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Humanities
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Cultural studies
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Literature & literary studies
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Multiculturalism
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Conference papers and proceedings
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United States
Kurzfassung:
Introduction / Sämi Ludwig -- Multiculturalism as a challenge to aesthetic theory / Natalia Vysotska -- Multiculturalism versus inequality: a falst opposition / Meili Steele -- Democratic doxa: toward a genealogy of typicality in American nationalist literature / Christopher G. Diller -- Arab Americans: the example of Naomi Shihab Nye / Bouchra Bouterra and Toufik Lachouri -- 'D'ici et d'ailleurs': hybridity, double standards and the western Arab-Muslim woman / Rim Khaled -- Ex/tension of/in 'a nation peopled by the world': re-evaluating kaleidoscopic feasts in Arab American and Asian American texts / Sihem Arfaoui -- Asian birthright and anglo bequest: Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen / Sheng-mei Ma -- Transnationalism, multiculturalism, and cosmopolitanism: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz / Fernando Valerio-Holguín -- Straddling worlds: a comparative study of the multicultural experiences of Anurag Mathur and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie / Arpa Ghosh -- Multiculturalizing America: Ishmael Reed and the cultural mosaic / Wendy Hayes-Jones -- The first rainbow coalition and the end of multi-cultural politics in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo / Stephen Casmier -- Didn't I tell you?: the hoodoo conjurer of Japanese by Spring / Yuqing Lin -- The new irony of Ishmael Reed against the new racism of postracial America / Jiři Šalamoun -- Jazz musicians as pioneer multi-culturalists, the co-optation of them, and the reason jazz survives / Ishmael Reed -- Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim: voicing the integral divide: transcending suffering by reshaping American history and language / Jennifer K. Dick -- "The Avalanche of Sims im Engadin", "Mulhouse, France" / Tennessee Reed -- "Eavesdropping on the Gods" / Ishmael Reed -- "The Freshman," "Haskell," "White Indians," "The Question," "Together Separately" / V. Jean Tahdooahnippah -- Suzushi Hanayagi at Mulhouse / Carla Blank -- Multiculturalism in art: the African American tradition continues / Paul von Blum -- Multiculturalism in color: Zuni colors and the non-Native American art market / Charlaine Ostmann -- Multicultural or destitute Hawai'i? Re-visioning the symbolism of the aloha shirt / Roxane Hughes -- Rethinking multiculturalism: critical pedagogy and critical literacy in education / M. Kamel Igoudjil -- Identity politics in the ESL classroom / Amanda de Varona and Saghar Leslie Naghib -- Guests or comrades? The rights of migrants in the workplace / Edward Mortimer -- The Latino condition: understanding multiculturalism and Pan-Latino ethnicity in the USA / Marc S. Rodriguez -- Bricolage of protest: unveiling the multicultural dimensions of the Chicano movement through its murals of protest / Atalie Gerhard -- Yiddish and American multiculturalism: a 'postvernacular' language on the margin / Astrid Starck-Adler -- Multiculturalism in the United States: a fait accompli? / Christèle Le Bihan -- American multiculturalism in the 21st century: achieving domestic and international goals in a globalized world / Saïd Ouaked -- The evolution of political multiculturalism in the United States, Barack Obama, affirmative action, and the Affordable Care Act / Lea Stephan -- Should I stay or should I go? Multiculturalism in Mulhouse / Evelyne Troxler -- André Weckmann and the influence of African American culture on modern Alsatian poetry / Peter André Bloch -- Managing cultural diversity: multiculturalism and citizenship in America and Algeria / Abderrezak Dourari -- From snowball to pomegranate seeds: the troubled position of Han within Chinese multiculturalism / Chang Liu.
Kurzfassung:
In March 2015, a group of experts from four continents and a wide range of disciplines met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in Mulhouse, France, and Basel, Switzerland. Guided by Swiss cultural and literary theorist Sämi Ludwig, and deliberately migrating back and forth across a political border in the heart of Europe, they not only listened to Reed and discussed his work, but also looked more widely at the different meanings assigned to "multiculturalism" in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. This volume brings together their reflections
Anmerkung:
"At the beginning of the process was a conference on multiculturalism ."--Page xi
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Includes bibliographical references
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