Culture and Difference
Critical Perspectives on the Bicultural Experience in the United States
- 288 pages
- English
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Culture and Difference
Critical Perspectives on the Bicultural Experience in the United States
About this book
The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture. Darder's introduction sets the tone by describing the formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas. In the words of Anzaldua, those who cross over, pass over... the confines of the `normal.' Critical essays follow by Mexicanas, poets, activists, and educators of all colors and persuasions. The collection coming out of the good work of the Southern California University system relates to all locales and spectrums of the human condition and will no doubt inspire excellent creativity of knowing and remembering among all who chance to read any part thereof.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Politics of Biculturalism: Culture and Difference in the Formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas
- Rethinking Afrocentricity: The Foundation of a Theory of Critical Africentricity
- Chicana Identity Matters
- Racialized Boundaries, Class Relations, and Cultural Politics: The Asian-American and Latino Experience
- Cultural Democracy and the Revitalization of the U.S. Labor Movement
- The Zone of Black Bodies: Language, Black Consciousness, and Adolescent Identities
- The Alter-Native Grain: Theorizing Chicano/a Popular Culture
- Public Space and Culture: A Critical Response to Conventional and Postmodern Visions of City Life
- The Idea of Mestizaje and the “Race” Problematic: Racialized Media Discourse in a Post-Fordist Landscape
- Working with Gay/Homosexual Latinos with HIV Disease: Spiritual Emergencies and Culturally Based Psycho-Therapeutic Treatments
- African Americans, Gender, and Religiosity
- Voice and Empowerment: The Struggle for Poetic Expression
- Bicultural Strengths and Struggles of Southeast Asian Americans in School
- Language Policy and Social Implications for Addressing the Bicultural Immigrant Experience in the United States
- Index
- About the Contributors