American Multiculturalism in Context : Views from at Home and Abroad.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Aesthetics, Literature, the Arts: Theoretical Beginnings -- Multiculturalism as a Challenge to Aesthetic Theory -- Multiculturalism versus Inequality -- Democratic Doxa -- Minority Literature -- Arab Americans -- 'D'ici et d'ailleurs' -- Ex/tension Of/In 'A Nation Peopled by the World' -- Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest -- Multiculturalism and Transnationalism -- Straddling Worlds -- On Ishmael Reed -- Multiculturalizing America -- The First Rainbow Coalition and the End of Multi-cultural Politics in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo Jumbo -- Didn't I Tell You? -- The New Irony of Ishmael Reed against the New Racism of Postracial America -- Jazz Musicians as Pioneer Multi-Culturalists, the Co-Optation of Them, and the Reason Jazz Survives -- Poetry -- Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim: Voicing the Integral Divide -- By Tennessee Reed -- By Ishmael Reed -- By V. Jean Tahdooahnippah -- Beyond Literature -- Suzushi Hanayagi at Mulhouse -- Multiculturalism in Art -- Multiculturalism in Color -- Multicultural or Destitute Hawai'i? Re-visioning the Symbolism of the Aloha Shirt -- Multicultural Education -- Rethinking Multiculturalism -- Identity Politics in the ESOL Classroom -- Migration and Ethnic History -- Guests or Comrades? The Rights of Migrants in the Workplace -- The Latino Condition -- Bricolage of Protest -- Yiddish and American Multiculturalism -- American Politics -- Multiculturalism in the United States -- American Multiculturalism in the 21st Century -- The Evolution of Political Multiculturalism in the United States -- Other Multiculturalisms -- Should I Stay or Should I Go? -- André Weckmann and the Influence of African American Culture on Modern Alsatian Poetry -- Managing Cultural Diversity -- From Snowball to Pomegranate Seeds -- Contributors.

In March 2015, a group of experts from four continents and a wide range of disciplines met with the leading African American writer Ishmael Reed in Mulhouse, France, and Basel, Switzerland. Guided by Swiss cultural and literary theorist Sämi Ludwig, and deliberately migrating back and forth across a political border in the heart of Europe, they not only listened to Reed and discussed his work, but also looked more widely at the different meanings assigned to "multiculturalism" in the United States, Europe, and other parts of the world. This volume brings together their reflections.

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