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Color-Line to Borderlands - The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies (Hardcover)
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Color-Line to Borderlands - The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies (Hardcover)
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"Ethnic Studies . . . has drawn higher education, usually kicking
and screaming, into the borderlands of scholarship, pedagogy,
faculty collegiality, and institutional development," Johnnella E.
Butler writes in her Introduction to this collection of lively and
insightful essays. Some of the most prominent scholars in Ethnic
Studies today explore varying approaches, multiple methodologies,
and contrasting perspectives within the field. Essays trace the
historical development of Ethnic Studies, its place in American
universities and the curriculum, and new directions in contemporary
scholarship. The legitimation of the field, the need for
institutional support, and the changing relations between academic
scholarship and community activism are also discussed. The
institutional structure of Ethnic Studies continues to be affected
by national, regional, and local attitudes and events, and Ronald
Takaki's essay explores the contested terrains of these culture
wars. Manning Marable delves into theoretical aspects of writing
about race and ethnicity, while John C. Walter surveys the
influence of African American history on U.S. history textbooks.
Elizabeth Cook-Lynn and Craig Howe explain why American Indian
Studies does not fit into the Ethnic Studies model, and Lauro H.
Flores traces the historical development of Chicano/a Studies,
forged from the student and community activism of the late 1960s.
Ethnic Studies is simultaneously discipline-based and
interdisciplinary, self-containing and overlapping. This volume
captures that dichotomy as contributors raise questions that
traditional disciplines ignore. Essays include Lane Ryo Hirabayashi
and Marilyn Caballero Alquizola on the gulf between postmodernism
and political and institutional realities; Rhett S. Jones on the
evolution of Africana Studies; and Judith Newton on the
trajectories of Ethnic Studies and Women's Studies and their
relations with marginalized communities. Shirley Hune and Evelyn
Hu-DeHart each make a case for the separation of Asian American
Studies from Asian Studies, while Edna Acosta-Belen argues for a
hemispheric approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino/a Studies.
T. V. Reed rounds out the volume by offering through cultural
studies bridges to the twenty-first century.
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