Topic: American Multiculturalism

• Name: Sonal Baraiya

• Class: M.A.Sem-2

• Roll No.: 26

• Subject: Cultural Studies.

• Submitted to: Smt.S.B.Gardi,

Department of English,

M.K.Bhavnagar University.

American Multiculturalism

• In 1965 the Watts race riots drew worldwide attention.

• The Civil Right Act had passed in 1964.

• President Lyndon Johnson signed the Voting Rights Act.

• James Meridith, the first African American student to enroll at the University of Mississippi, was wounded by a white segregationist.

• In 1972, the geneticist Richard Lewontin founded that most genetic differences were within racial groups, not between them.

• ‘‘Race’’ is still a critical feature of American life.

• ‘‘The Other’’

African American Writers

Ralph Ellison • African American studies is widely pursued in American literary criticism.

• In Shadow and Act (1964)

-Ralph Ellison

• He argued that any ‘‘viable theory of Negro American Culture as a whole’’.

Writers of the earlier and middle periods

• Harriet E. Wilson’s Our Nig: or Sketches from the Life of a Free Black, in a Two-Story White House, North (1859).

• Linda Brent’s Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1860).

• Frances Ellen Watkins Harper’s Iola Leroy; or, Shadows Uplifted (1892).

• Richard Wright wrote Native Son (1938) and Black Boy (1945).

Toni Morrison

• The Bluest Eye (1970)

• Song of Solomon (1977)

• Beloved (1987)

Latina/o Writers

• They are reflected at an unprecedented rate in the arts, broadcasting, and entertainment.

• Cisneros, of San Antonio, who wrote The House on Mango Street (1984).

• ‘‘To Live in the Borderlands Means You.’’

-Gloria Anzaldua.

• Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima(1973).

Three cultural archetypes

La Malinche

La virgen de Guadalupe

La Llorona

American Indian Literatures

• ‘‘Native American’’

• Two types of Indian Literature have evolved as fields of study.

1) Traditional Indian Literature.

2) Mainstream Indian Literature.

• M.Scott Momaday’s House Made of Dawn (1968).

• Erdrich’s novels Love Medicine (1984), The Best Queen (1986), and Tracks (1988).

Asian American Writers

• Asian American Writers include Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Filipino, Malaysian, and many other peoples of Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and the pacific.

• It is begun in twentieth century, primarily with autobiographical ‘‘Paper Son’’ stories and ‘‘confessions’’.

• Amy Tan, who wrote ‘‘Joy Luck Club’’(1989).• Carolyn Lei-lanilau, author of Ono One Girl’s

Hula(1997), and Lois-Ann Yamanaka, author of Wild Meat and the Bully Burgers(1997).

Thank You