Multi-America: Essays on Cultural Wars and Cultural Peace - Hardcover

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Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0670867535 ISBN 13: 9780670867530

Publisher: Viking Adult, 1997

Synopsis

A broad range of perspectives on race is included in a collection of essays by such writers as Toni Morrison, Amiri Baraka, Frank Chin, and others who argue that the image of a black-white conflict is obsolete

About this title

About the Author:

Ishmael Reed is one of America's most renowned African-American writers. He is the author of plays, poetry and novels, including Japanese by Spring. He lives in Oakland, California.

From Library Journal:

The Simpson trials, the controversy over Ebonics, and recent California legislation aimed at illegal aliens are but three examples of how America no longer lives up to the "melting pot" image, according to the author. In an assorted group of 52 essays, minority authors?Asian Americans, African Americans, Italian Americans, and Latinos?explore the polarization of American societies. Editor Reed (Airing Dirty Laundry, LJ 11/1/93) provides an introductory essay that points at media stereotyping as the reason for most of the problem. Some contributors, such as Michael E. Ross, Gerald Horne, Michael Lenoir, and Rudolfo Anaya, are not optimistic for the future of racial relations. Others, like Elaine Kim and Brenda Payton, are more hopeful for ethnic identity in America. Still others, like Martin Kilson, want different ethnic groups to work together to bring change. This is an important, even controversial book, and one to which the established Anglo leadership should pay attention. Highly recommended.?Boyd Childress, Auburn Univ. Lib., Ala.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Viking Adult
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0670867535
• ISBN 13: 9780670867530
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 496
• Editor: Reed Ishmael