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Titel

Other Americans, Other Americas: The Politics and Poetics of Multiculturalism

Ist Teil von

• Ethnic Studies Review, 1998, Vol.21, p.150

Ort / Verlag

Berkeley: University of California Press, Journals & Digital Publishing Division

Erscheinungsjahr

1998

Quelle

Sociological Abstracts

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• A few quibbles: lb Johansen in "[Ismael Reed], Multiculturalism, and the Collapse of Paternal Laws" does not seem to be aware that the character Papa LeBas is also the Voodoo Iwa. Nor does Russell Duncan In "Dancing Along the Edge of the Roof: Complexions of Indian Identity in the (Auto)Biographies of Wilma Mankiller and Russel Means" seem to be aware that Moses is Hebrew, not Christian, and that Genesis is a Hebrew text, not a Christian one. In Scopic America: Casting a Colonial Eye Prem Poddar casts a contemporary eye on early English colonial maps and descriptions. He brilliantly exposes them as containing "sedimented racist attitudes" and contends that so deeply inscribed in their psyches were the colonizers' "convictions of superiority that they "legitimated violence against the indigenous inhabitants." Unfortunately Poddar also exposes his own blind spots, his own sedimented sexist attitudes and convictions of superiority toward feminist critcs.