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1 online resource (xxvi, 310 pages) |
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American ethnic and cultural studies |
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American ethnic and cultural studies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Multiculturalism: battleground or meeting ground? / Ronald Takaki -- Ethnic studies as a matrix for the humanities, the social sciences, and the common good / Johnnella E. Butler -- The problematics of ethnic studies / Manning Marable -- The influence of African American history on U.S. history survey textbooks since the 1970s / John C. Walter -- Ethnic studies in U.S. higher education: the state of the discipline / Evelyn Hu-DeHart -- From ideology to institution: the evolution of Africana studies / Rhett S. Jones -- The dialectics of ethnicity in America: a view from American Indian studies / Elizabeth Cook-Lynn & Craig Howe -- Whither the Asian American subject? / Lane Ryo Hirabayashi & Marilyn Caballero Alquizola -- Thirty years of Chicano and Chicana studies / Lauro H. Flores -- Asian American studies and Asian studies: boundaries and borderlands of ethnic studies and area studies / Shirley Hune -- Reimagining borders: a hemispheric approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino and Latina studies / Edna Acosta-Belén -- Bridges to the twenty-first century: making cultural studies- and making it work / Judith Newton -- Heavy traffic at the intersections: ethnic, American, women's, queer, and cultural studies / T.V. Reed. |
| Summary |
The 13 essays collected here touch on many issues experiences in the development of Ethnic Studies departments in American academic institutions. The authors have developed work they first presented at an April 1993 symposium held at the U. of Washington in Seattle. Some of the topics presented include: a hemispheric approach to Latino and Latina studies, the evolution of ideology in Africana studies, boundaries between ethnic and area studies, and making cultural studies work. Newton teaches at the U. of Washington. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2022. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) |
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All rights reserved. |
| Subject |
United States -- Ethnic relations -- Study and teaching (Higher)
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Cultural pluralism -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Minorities -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Ethnicity -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- United States.
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Electronic books.
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Butler, Johnnella E., editor.
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American Council of Learned Societies.
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ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
| ISBN |
0295980907 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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9780295980904 (cloth ; alk. paper) |
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0295980915 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780295980911 (pbk. ; alk. paper) |
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9780295995717 hardcover |
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9780295980911 paperback |
| Standard No. |
heb40085 hdl |
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