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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457168003321

Titolo

Color-line to borderlands [[electronic resource] ] : the matrix of American ethnic studies / / edited by Johnnella E. Butler

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Seattle, : University of Washington Press, 2001

ISBN

0-295-80113-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (338 p.)

Collana

American ethnic and cultural studies

Altri autori (Persone)

ButlerJohnnella E

Disciplina

305.8/0071/173

Soggetti

Cultural pluralism - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Minorities - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Ethnicity - Study and teaching (Higher) - United States

Electronic books.

United States Ethnic relations Study and teaching (Higher)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Color-Line to Borderlands; I. Ethnic Studies as a Matrix: Moving from Color-Line to Borderlands; Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?; Ethnic Studies as a Matrix for the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Common Good; The Problematics of Ethnic Studies; The Influence of African American History on U.S. History Survey Textbooks since the 1970's; II. Institutional Structure and Knowledge Production; Ethnic Studies in U.S. Higher Education: The State of the Discipline; From Ideology to Institution: The Evolution of Africana Studies

The Dialectics of Ethnicity in America: A View from American Indian Studies Whither the Asian American Subject?; Thirty Years of Chicano and Chicana Studies; III. Changing and Emerging Paradigms; Asian American Studies and Asian Studies: Boundaries and Borderlands of Ethnic Studies and Area Studies; Reimagining Borders: A Hemispheric Approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino and Latina Studies; Bridges to the Twenty-First Century: Making Cultural Studies-and Making It Work; Heavy Traffic at the Intersections: Ethnic, American, Women's, Queer, and Cultural Studies; Contributors; Index