American multiculturalism emerged in 1964 with the passing of the Civil Rights Act. It began as a philosophy in the late 19th century promoting the inclusion of many ethnic and cultural groups in society. American multiculturalism includes writings from African Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos/Latinas, and Native Americans. These works often explore themes of double consciousness and the search for an inclusive American identity that acknowledges histories of oppression and cultural contributions.

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

2. British Culture
Materialism
Postcolonial
Studies
Postmodernism
and Popular
Culture
American
Multiculturalism
New Historicism
Types of Cultural Studies

3. What is Multicultural?
“Multicultural 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.”

4. American Multiculturalism
 American multiculturalism
was came into existence in
1964 with the passing Civil
Right Act.
As a philosophy , multiculturalism
began as part of the Pragmatism
movement at the end of the 19th
century in Europe and the United
States.
“Every American should understand Mexico from the
point of view of the observer of the conquest and of
the history before the conquest……”

5. America has
many
Cultures
African
American
Writers
Asian
American
Writers
American
Indian
Cultures
Latina/o
Writers

6. African American Writers
“Any viable theory of Negro American Culture
obligates us to fashion a more adequate theory
of American culture as a whole”
 In “Shadow and Act” (1964)
novelist Ralph Evison argues that.
 African American writing displays a „double consciousness‟.

7. “Black people had before they knew
there was such a thing as art”
-Eilison
 African American writers and their works
“Our Nig” Harriet Wilson
“The Color Purple” Alice Walker
“The Bond Woman‟s
Narrative”
Hunnah Craft
- Ellison

8. Latina/o Writers
 Latina/o writers are also known as Mexican American.
 This term indicates a broad sense of ethnicity among Spanish-
Speaking and most influential group of Latina/o ethnicities in
the United States.
“The search for „America‟ 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.”
- Juan Flores and George Yudice

9. “Mexican Village” (1945) Niggli
“Hunger of Memory” (1981)
“California” (1985)
Richard Rodriguez
Maria Ampuro Ruiz de
Burton

10. American Indian Literature
 For American Indians,
stories are a source of
strength in the face of
centuries of silencing by
Euro-Americans.

11. “Tracks”
“She Had some Horses”
Edrich
Joy Harjo
 A term „Native American‟ is preferred by most academics
and many tribal, members, who find the term „Indian‟ a
misnomer and stereotype- as in “cowboys and Indians” or
“Indian giver” that helped whites wrest the sentiment away
from indigenous people.

12. Asian American Writers
 Asian immigrates were denied
citizenship as late as the 1950s,
Edward Said wrote ‘oriental’s’
Asian American writers include
Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino,
Vietnamese, Malaysian, Polynesian
and many other people of Asia, the
pacific.

13. “Treasure Island” (1883) R.L.Stevenson
“The House of Pride” (1912) Jack London
 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.

15. American
Multiculturalism