Using a cultural studies perspective, examines both fiction and autobiographical writings from minority authors including Toni Morrison, Gerald Vizenor, and Sandra Cisneros.
Focusing on the Central Pacific Railroad Company run by Leland Stanford, Collis P. Huntington, Charles Crocker, and Mark Hopkins, the novel recapitulates a chapter of California history in notably confrontational terms.
Winner of: The Pulitzer Prize The National Book Critics Circle Award The Anisfield-Wolf Book Award The Jon Sargent, Sr. First Novel Prize A Time Magazine #1 Fiction Book of the Year One of the best books of 2007 according to: The New York ...
Each chapter focuses on three picture books related to various multicultural themes in American history.
As a young child on a Maryland plantation, he had been sent by his master, Thomas Auld, to live with his grandparents, Betsey and Isaac Bailey. Grandmother Bailey was in charge ofthe childrenof theyounger slave women.
Mary Mellor, NY: New York University Press, 1997; Ecofeminism: Voice, Culture, and Nature, ed. Karen J. Warren, Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1997; Sandra G. Harding, Is Science Multicultural? Postcolonialism, Feminism and ...
Tricksterism in Turn-of-the-century American Literature: A Multicultural Perspective
The New York Times best-selling author’s time-travel classic that makes us feel the horrors of American slavery and indicts our country’s lack of progress on racial reconciliation The series adaption from FX premieres December 13 on ...
Park, Robert E. “Racial Assimilation in Secondary Groups with Particular Reference to the Negro.” Publication of the American Sociological ... Park, Robert E., and Ernest W. Burgess. The City. ... New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972. ——.
The House on Mango Street is the remarkable story of Esperanza Cordero, a young Latina girl growing up in Chicago, inventing for herself who and what she will become.
Accordingly, the editors of a new, pathbreaking volume on Keywords in Southern Studies attest that doing southern studies in the twenty-first century might be summed up as a charge to resist the monolith in all its dimensions: It is ...