UID:
edocfu_9959238463202883
Format:
1 online resource (288 p.)
ISBN:
9786612062759
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1-282-06275-1
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0-253-10884-5
Content:
Multi-culturalismRoots and RealitiesEdited by C. James TrotmanExamines the place of multiculturalism in our society.The most meaningful support for multiculturalism has come from intellectuals, such as those represented in this book, who have discovered greater meaning about our American past by incorporating the concepts driving multi-culturalism. These essays engage the word and its meanings, as varied as they are, in an effort to add and expand on the dialogue for this ever-
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Description based upon print version of record.
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Introduction. multiculturalism : roots and realities / C. James Trotman -- "The lives grown out of his life" : Frederick Douglass, multiculturalism, and diversity / Henry Louis Gates, Jr. -- Frederick Douglass's American "we" / Julie Husband -- Adding her testimony : Harriet Jacobs's incidents as testimonial literature / Jeannine Delombard -- Water rites : navigating passage and social transformation in American slave and travel narratives / Richard Hardack -- James Forten and "the gentlemen of the pave" : race, wealth, and power in antebellum Philadelphia / Julie Winch -- David Walker, African rights, and liberty / Verner D. Mitchell -- African-American protest and the role of the Haitian pavilion at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair / Barbara J. Ballard -- Race, womanhood, and the tragic mulatta : an issue of ambiguity / Christine Palumbo-Desimone -- "My sisters toil" : voice in anti-slavery poetry by white female factory workers / Susan Alves -- Enacting culture : Zora Neale Hurston, Joel Chandler Harris, and literary anthropology / Juniper Ellis -- Abby Kelley Foster : a feminist voice reconsidered, 1810-1887 / Richard E. Greene -- African-American childhood in early Philadelphia / Janet Harrison Shannon -- Border controls of race and gender : Crane's The monster and Chesnutt's The conjure woman / Matthew Wilson -- "Moral authority," history, and the case of canonization : William Wells Brown's Clotel and Clotelle / Gillian Johns -- Mark Twain and the multicultural imagination / Joe B. Fulton.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-21487-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-253-34002-0
Language:
English
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