Multiculturalism and Forging New Canons

A Companion to American Literature and Culture

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 110-121

  Streeby, Shelley ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

1990s work on imperial and global contexts for US literature and culture; Anthologies as Black Fire (1968) and The Black Aesthetic (1971) poetry plays by Neal's and Imamu Amiri Baraka' (LeRoi Jones) Black Arts Repertory Theater in Harlem; Influential anthology Nuyorican Poetry An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings (1975); Late 1960s and 1970s Asian American movement and other movements; Multicultural approaches to US literature emerging in response to social movements of 1960s and 1970s; Multiculturalism and forging new canons; Multiculturalism in education from civil rights activists' efforts to pushing for desegregation of schools; Neoconservatives, warning that multiculturalism was a radical project dividing Americans; The Black Arts movement, heterogeneous cultural formation with different local manifestations; This Bridge Called My Back Writings by Radical Women of Color (1981) issues of sexuality, cultural nationalism and white middle class feminism

Indexed keywords

EID: 84858142693     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320626.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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