critical perspectives on the bicultural experience in the United States /
edited by Antonia Darder.
Westport, Conn. :
Bergin & Garvey,
1995.
1 online resource (xiv, 266 pages) :
illustrations, maps
Critical studies in education and culture series
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction. The Politics of biculturalism: culture and difference in the formation of Warriors for gringostroika and The New mestizas / Antonia Darder -- Rethinking Afrocentricity: the foundation of a theory of critical Africentricity / Makungu M. Akinyela -- Chicana identity matters / Deena J. González -- Racialized boundaries, class relations, and cultural politics: the Asian-American and Latino experience / Rodolfo D. Torres and ChorSwang Ngin -- Cultural democracy and the revitalization of the U.S. labor movement / Kent Wong -- The Zone of Black bodies: language, Black consciousness, and adolescent identities / Garrett Duncan -- The Alter-native grain: theorizing Chicano/a popular culture / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Public space and culture: a critical response to conventional and postmodern visions of city life / David R. Diaz -- The Idea of Mestizaje and the "race" problematic: racialized media discourse in a post-fordist landscape / Victor Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres -- Working with gay/homosexual Latinos with HIV disease: spiritual emergencies and culturally based psycho-therapeutic treatments / Lourdes Arguelles and Anne Rivero -- African Americans, gender, and religiosity / Daphne C. Wiggins -- Voice and empowerment: the struggle for poetic expression / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Bicultural strengths and struggles of Southeast Asian Americans in school / Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Language policy and social implications for addressing the bicultural immigrant experience in the United States / Alberto M. Ochoa.
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The yearning to remember who we are is not easily detected in the qualitative dimensions of focus groups and ethnographic research methods; nor is it easily measured in standard quantified scientific inquiry. It is deeply rooted, obscured by layer upon layer of human efforts to survive the impact of historical amnesia induced by the dominant policies and practices of advanced capitalism and postmodern culture. Darder's introduction sets the tone by describing the formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas. In the words of Anzaldua, those who cross over, pass over ... the co.
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