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American Multiculturalism in Context American Multiculturalism in Context: Views from at Home and Abroad Edited by Sämi Ludwig American Multiculturalism in Context: Views from at Home and Abroad Edited by Sämi Ludwig This book first published 2017 Cambridge Scholars Publishing Lady Stephenson Library, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE6 2PA, UK British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Copyright © 2017 by Sämi Ludwig and contributors All rights for this book reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the copyright owner. ISBN (10): 1-4438-1691-4 ISBN (13): 978-1-4438-1691-5 TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements .................................................................................... xi Introduction .............................................................................................. xiii Sämi Ludwig (UHA Mulhouse, France) Aesthetics, Literature, the Arts: Theoretical Beginnings Multiculturalism as a Challenge to Aesthetic Theory .................................. 3 Natalia Vysotska (Kiev National Linguistic University, Ukraine) Multiculturalism versus Inequality: A False Opposition ........................... 15 Meili Steele (University of South Carolina, U.S.A.) Democratic Doxa: Toward a Genealogy of Typicality in American Nationalist Literature ................................................................................. 33 Christopher G. Diller (Berry College, GA, U.S.A.) Minority Literature Arab Americans: The Example of Naomi Shihab Nye .............................. 51 Bouchra Bouterra and Toufik Lachouri (Université 20 août 1955, Skikda, Algeria) ‘D’ici et d’ailleurs’: Hybridity, Double Standards and the Western Arab-Muslim Woman ................................................................................ 63 Rim Khaled (University of Tunis, Tunisia) Ex/tension Of/In ‘A Nation Peopled by the World’: Re-evaluating Kaleidoscopic Feasts in Arab American and Asian American Texts ........ 85 Sihem Arfaoui (ISSH University of Jendouba, Tunisia, and Northern Borders University, KSA) Asian Birthright and Anglo Bequest: Chang-rae Lee and Bich Minh Nguyen.............................................................................. 99 Sheng-mei Ma (Michigan State University, U.S.A.) vi Table of Contents Transnationalism, Multiculturalism, and Cosmopolitanism: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz ........................... 113 Fernando Valerio-Holguín (Colorado State University, U.S.A.) Straddling Worlds: A Comparative Study of the Multicultural Experiences of Anurag Mathur and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie........... 121 Arpa Ghosh (Vivekananda College for Women, Kolkata, India) On Ishmael Reed Multiculturalizing America: Ishmael Reed and the Cultural Mosaic ...... 131 Wendy Hayes-Jones (Swansea Metropolitan University, U.K.) The First Rainbow Coalition and the End of Multi-cultural Politics in Ishmael Reed’s Mumbo Jumbo ............................................................ 145 Stephen Casmier (St. Louis University, U.S.A.) Didn’t I Tell You?: The Hoodoo Conjurer of Japanese by Spring .......... 165 Yuqing Lin (China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China) The New Irony of Ishmael Reed against the New Racism of Postracial America ................................................................................................... 177 Jiří Šalamoun (Masaryk University, Czech Republic) Jazz Musicians as Pioneer Multi-Culturalists, the Co-Optation of Them, and the Reason Jazz Survives .................................................................. 189 Ishmael Reed (writer, publisher, activist, Oakland, U.S.A.) Poetry Craig Santos Perez and Myung Mi Kim: Voicing the Integral Divide: Transcending Suffering by Reshaping American History and Language ... 203 Jennifer K. Dick (UHA Mulhouse, France) By Tennessee Reed .................................................................................. 221 (editor, writer, Oakland, U.S.A.) “The Avalanche of Sils im Engadin” “Mulhouse, France” American Multiculturalism in Context vii By Ishmael Reed ...................................................................................... 225 (writer, publisher, activist, Oakland, U.S.A.) “Eavesdropping on the Gods” By V. Jean Tahdooahnippah .................................................................... 231 (Comanche Nation, U.S.A.) “The Freshman” “Haskell” “White Indians” “The Question” “Together Separately” Beyond Literature: Dance, Art, Tradition and Commodification Suzushi Hanayagi at Mulhouse ............................................................... 239 Carla Blank (dancer, director, writer, Oakland, U.S.A.) Multiculturalism in Art: The African American Tradition Continues ..... 261 Paul von Blum (UC Los Angeles, U.S.A.) Multiculturalism in Color: Zuni Colors and the Non-Native American Art Market ............................................................................................... 273 Charlaine Ostmann (UHA Mulhouse, France) Multicultural or Destitute Hawai’i? Re-visioning the Symbolism of the Aloha Shirt .................................................................................... 281 Roxane Hughes (University of Lausanne, Switzerland) Multicultural Education Rethinking Multiculturalism: Critical Pedagogy and Critical Literacy in Education ............................................................................................. 303 M. Kamel Igoudjil (American University in Washington, DC, U.S.A.) Identity Politics in the ESL Classroom .................................................... 317 Amanda de Varona and Saghar Leslie Naghib (University of Miami, U.S.A.) viii Table of Contents Migration and Ethnic History Guests or Comrades? The Rights of Migrants in the Workplace ............ 335 Edward Mortimer (CMG Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford; Senior Program Advisor, Salzburg Global Seminar) The Latino Condition: Understanding Multiculturalism and Pan-Latino Ethnicity in the USA ............................................................................... 347 Marc S. Rodriguez (Portland State University, U.S.A.) Bricolage of Protest: Unveiling the Multicultural Dimensions of the Chicano Movement through its Murals of Protest ......................... 371 Atalie Gerhard (Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen, Germany) Yiddish and American Multiculturalism: A ‘Postvernacular’ Language on the Margin .......................................................................... 387 Astrid Starck-Adler (UHA Mulhouse, France) American Politics Multiculturalism in the United States: A fait accompli? ......................... 413 Christèle Le Bihan (Université de Poitiers, France) American Multiculturalism in the 21st Century: Achieving Domestic and International Goals in a Globalized World ....................................... 435 Saïd Ouaked (Université de Limoges, France) The Evolution of Political Multiculturalism in the United States: Barack Obama, Affirmative Action, and the Affordable Care Act .......... 449 Lea Stephan (Université Toulouse 2 Jean-Jaurès, France) Other Multiculturalisms Should I Stay or Should I Go? Multiculturalism in Mulhouse ................ 471 Evelyne Troxler (Université Populaire, Mulhouse, France) André Weckmann and the Influence of African American Culture on Modern Alsatian Poetry ...................................................................... 477 Peter André Bloch (UHA Mulhouse, France) American Multiculturalism in Context ix Managing Cultural Diversity: Multiculturalism and Citizenship in America and Algeria............................................................................ 491 Abderrezak Dourari (Algiers 2 University, Director of CNPLET, Ministry of Education, Algeria) From Snowball to Pomegranate Seeds: The Troubled Position of Han within Chinese Multiculturalism ................................................. 507 Chang Liu (Jilin University Institute for Chinese Studies, China) Contributors ............................................................................................. 519 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Many people have been involved in the production of this book. Mainly the authors, of course, but multiple other people and organizations have helped in its gestation. At the beginning of the process was a conference on multiculturalism inspired by Ishmael Reed’s promise to visit Mulhouse, France. He came with his whole family, Carla Blank, his wife, and their daughter Tennessee. I was lucky enough to recruit as a second plenary speaker Edward Mortimer, a highly decorated journalist and one time press speaker of Kofi Annan, whom I’d met at the Salzburg Seminar. Still, I needed more help in the organization of this event. With the support of the Basle Jazz School it was possible to make things doubly international—not only the speakers but also the locations. For hosting us in Switzerland, I thank Philipp Schweighauser, Veit Arlt and Berni Ley— they also helped organizing a wonderful jazz reading accompanied by musicians from the school!1 The day in Basle would not have been possi- ble without financial support from the Freie Akademische Gesellschaft. At home in Mulhouse, we received help from many organizations and people. The list is long: the Conseil Scientifique of the UHA Mulhouse, our research labo ILLE (EA4363), the English department, the LEA de-