American Multicultural Studies: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality

by Sherrow O. Pinder (editor)

American Multicultural Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality provides an interdisciplinary view of multicultural studies in the United States, addressing a wide range of topics that continue to define and shape this area of study. Through this collection of essays Sherrow Pinder responds to the need to open up a rich avenue for addressing current and continuing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cultural diversity, and education in their varied forms. Substantial thematic overlaps are found between sections and essays, all of which are oriented toward a single broad to develop new and different ways of addressing how multicultural issues, in their discursive sociocultural contexts, are inextricably linked to the operations of power. Power, as a site of resistance to which it invariably gives rise, is tacked from a perspective that attends to the complexities of America′s history and politics.

544 pages, Paperback

First published July 11, 2012

Reviews

[David Lucander · Rating 1 out of 5]

This collection of essays is too theoretical for an average undergraduate student, too specific in its references to things like "gypsy punk" or artists like Kara Walker for a general class, and too high fallutin' in its use of jargon for me to appreciate at all. I should have known this was going to be a bad one when Foucault and Bhabba were mentioned on the first page and five minutes into this a sentence mentioned "epigrammatic exposition of Afrocentrist and postmodernist discources." There are so many other great books about multiculturalism out there that it's hard for me to recommend this one. I should have just read some more Du Bois, or gone running, or cleaned out the garage, or went out for coffee...