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Color-Line to Borderlands: The Matrix of American Ethnic Studies
Johnnella E. Butler
In Color-Line to Borderlands, 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 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. 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-Belén 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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Contents
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Acknowledgments
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Introduction: Color-Line to Borderlands
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I. Ethnic Studies as a Matrix:Moving from Color-Line to Borderlands
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Multiculturalism: Battleground or Meeting Ground?
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Ethnic Studies as a Matrix for the Humanities, the Social Sciences, and the Common Good
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The Problematics of Ethnic Studies
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The Influence of African American History on U.S. History Survey Textbooks since the 1970s
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II. Institutional Structure and Knowledge Production
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Ethnic Studies in U.S. Higher Education: The State of the Discipline
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From Ideology to Institution: The Evolution of Africana Studies
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The Dialectics of Ethnicity in America: A View from American Indian Studies
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Whither the Asian American Subject?
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Thirty Years of Chicano and Chicana Studies
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III. Changing and Emerging Paradigms
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Asian American Studies and Asian Studies: Boundaries and Borderlands of Ethnic Studies and Area Studies
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Reimagining Borders: A Hemispheric Approach to Latin American and U.S. Latino and Latina Studies
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Bridges to the Twenty-First Century: Making Cultural Studies—and Making It Work
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Heavy Traffic at the Intersections: Ethnic, American, Women’s, Queer, and Cultural Studies
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Contributors
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Index
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Published: 2001
Publisher: University of Washington Press
- 978-0-295-98091-1 (paper)
- 978-0-295-99571-7 (hardcover)