American Multicultural Studies

Introduction: The Concept and Definition of American Multicultural Studies - Sherrow O. Pinder Theorizing Issues Concerning American Multicultural Studies What is Black in the Melting Pot? A Critique of Afrocentrist and Postmodernist Discourses on Blackness - Babacar M'Baye Multicultural Rhythms: Musical and Racial Harmony - Kulvinder Arora In-Between Languages: Translingual Living and Writing in the United States - Paola Bohorquez Ableist Colonizations: Re-framing Disability in Multicultural Studies - Cindy LaCom Ontological Violence and American Cultural Psyche: A Psychoanalytic Inquiry of an American Cultural Identity - Kevin Johnson Race The Past as Rhetorical Resource for Resistance: Remembering Nonviolence in Eyes on the Prize - Jennifer Asenas Transnational Adoption, Paradoxical Essentialism, and Obama-Era Racial Politics in America - Jenny Heijun Wills Race, Sex and Hollywood: Black Men and White Women Censored - Nicole Amber Haggard Gender Multiculturalism, Women, and the Need for a Feminist Analysis - Cynthia Bynoe and Sherrow O. Pinder Claiming Sarah Baartman: Black Womanhood in the Global Imaginary - Thelma Pinto Assimilation in a Bikini:" The Re-Veiling and Disciplining of Rima Fakih, the First Muslim-Arab Woman to Win Miss USA - Mariam Esseghaier Sensing Race and Gender in Contemporary Postcolonial Art - Mariangela Orabona "I Have Two Loves": Josephine Baker and the Duality of Identity in the United States and France - Yvonne D. Sims Ethnicity Indigenous Soul Wounding and Memetic Development: A Personal Exploration of Cultural Emergence - Wendy M.K. Peters Blacks' and Asians' Intergroup Perceptions and Stereotypes: Implications for moving beyond a binary analysis of race-relations - John Tawa, Karen L. Suyemoto, and Jesse J. Tauriac al-Mahjar: Little Syria and the Creation of Syrian-American Identity, 1890-1940 - Sarah Kanbar Redescribing the Redskin Controversy: Cultural Sensitivity, Working-Class Habitus, and the Mascot's Enduring Popularity - Christopher B. Zeichmann and Nathanael P. Romero Sexuality Saying I Do: Marriage as Institutionalized Passing - Elizabeth Renfro Marriage, Sex and Subordination - Mara Marin Mut'ah as Social Contract - Consent and Reciprocity in an Islamic Sexual Contract - Helen Linberg The Absence of African-American Churches in the Same Sex Marriage Battle: Why Not at the Frontlines of the Same-Sex Marriage Battle? - Henry Zomerfeld and Kyeonghi Baek Cultural Diversity Multi Kontra Culti: The Gypsy Punk Counterculture - Alan Ashton-Smith The Power of Language in Mixed-Race Identities in Nora Okja Keller's Comfort Woman and Fox Girl - Cynthia Lytle Can We? Reality and representation of social and political change in American visual discourse - Juergen Heinrichs Graffiti Art and Chicano Visualities: A Multicultural Rewriting of Californian Spatialities - Eduardo Barros Grela Education Rethinking Speech and Language Impairments within Fluency Dominated Cultures - Antonio L. Ellis and Nicholas Daniel Hartlep Color-Blindsided at the Intersection of Culture and Curriculum Integration in Art - Teresa Cotner Complicit in their in their own marginalization: Teacher perceptions on women's representation in 11th grade U.S. History textbooks - Christine Dobbins and Mark Malisa Multicultural Studies & Sexual Diversity: A Postmodern Queer(y) for All - Sean Robinson