1. Topic : American Multiculturalism
Name : Solanki Sardarsinh
Roll No : 26 Semester : 2 Year : 2013-14
Paper 8 : Cultural Studies
Submitted to:
Smt. S.B.Gardi
Department of English
M.K.Bhavnagar University
3. What is Multicultural?
âMulticultural is involving or relating to several ethnic
groups or cultural groups within a society. It includes
people who have many different beliefs and customs . It
could be designed for cultures of different races.â
4. American Multiculturalism
ď American multiculturalism
was came into existence in
1964 with the passing Civil
Right Act.
ďAs a philosophy , multiculturalism
began as part of the Pragmatism
movement at the end of the 19th
century in Europe and the United
States.
âEvery American should understand Mexico from the
point of view of the observer of the conquest and of
the history before the conquestâŚâŚâ
6. African American Writers
âAny viable theory of Negro American Culture
obligates us to fashion a more adequate theory
of American culture as a wholeâ
ď In âShadow and Actâ (1964)
novelist Ralph Evison argues that.
ď African American writing displays a âdouble consciousnessâ.
7. âBlack people had before they knew
there was such a thing as artâ
-Eilison
ďś African American writers and their works
âOur Nigâ Harriet Wilson
âThe Color Purpleâ Alice Walker
âThe Bond Womanâs
Narrativeâ
Hunnah Craft
- Ellison
8. Latina/o Writers
ď Latina/o writers are also known as Mexican American.
ď This term indicates a broad sense of ethnicity among Spanish-
Speaking and most influential group of Latina/o ethnicities in
the United States.
âThe search for âAmericaâ the inclusive multicultural society
of the continent has to do with nothing less than the
imaginative those of remapping and renaming in the service
not only of Lalinos but of all climates.â
- Juan Flores and George Yudice
9. âMexican Villageâ (1945) Niggli
âHunger of Memoryâ (1981)
âCaliforniaâ (1985)
Richard Rodriguez
Maria Ampuro Ruiz de
Burton
10. American Indian Literature
ď For American Indians,
stories are a source of
strength in the face of
centuries of silencing by
Euro-Americans.
11. âTracksâ
âShe Had some Horsesâ
Edrich
Joy Harjo
ď A term âNative Americanâ is preferred by most academics
and many tribal, members, who find the term âIndianâ a
misnomer and stereotype- as in âcowboys and Indiansâ or
âIndian giverâ that helped whites wrest the sentiment away
from indigenous people.
12. Asian American Writers
ď Asian immigrates were denied
citizenship as late as the 1950s,
Edward Said wrote âorientalâsâ
Asian American writers include
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino,
Vietnamese, Malaysian, Polynesian
and many other people of Asia, the
pacific.
13. âTreasure Islandâ (1883) R.L.Stevenson
âThe House of Prideâ (1912) Jack London
ď Asian American literature can be said to have begun around the
turn of the twentieth century. Increasing attention in Asian American
studies has been focused on writers from Hawaii, Guam and the
Philippines including. Asian American writing is quiet among
Americans as well as other countries.