MULTICULTURAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES
DEFINITION
Studies of the diversity of cultures and the examination
of phenomena from a global perspective.
COMPREHENSIVE LINK: Multicultural Pavilion: a site devoted to multicultural education and maintained by Paul Gorski, now a coordinator of intercultural programming at the University of Maryland
THEORY
Multicultural/Anthropological Theory link
Whiteness,
of course, is a delusion -- as the insane Captain
Ahab demonstrates. Scientists today mostly agree that there is no such
thing as "race," at least when analyzed in terms of genetics or behavioral
variation. Every human population is a mongrel population, full of people
descended from various places and with widely differing physical qualities.
Gregory Jay, English Professor,
on Whiteness
Studies
Multicultural/Anthropological Theory link
The old stereotypes fail to connote, and race talk is forced to
invent new, increasingly mindless ones. There is virtually no movement
up -- for blacks or whites, established classes or arrivistes -- that is
not accompanied by race talk. Refusing, negotiating or fulfilling this
demand is the real stuff, the organizing principle of becoming an American.
Star spangled. Race strangled.
Toni Morrison,
"On
the Backs of Blacks"
Multicultural/Anthropological Theory link
Arnold
Genthe, The Fish Dealer's Daughter, Chinatown, San Francisco.
Habitus: defined as the "system of acquired
dispositions functioning on the practical level as categories of perception
and assessment or as classificatory principles as well as being the organizing
principles of action."
Pierre
Bourdieu
Practice :
Multicultural/Anthropological Practice link
W.E.B.
Du Bois woke
up one day and, seemingly out of the blue,
announced that the most efficacious way to fight white racism would be
the publication of a
comprehensive black
encyclopedia,
an encyclopedia about the whole black world. A black
Encyclopedia Brittanica.
Henry
Louis Gates Jr.
Multicultural/Anthropological Practice link
Alfred Eisenstaedt
The V-J Day Kiss
... kissing
is one of the most prevalent
and complex interpersonal behaviors human cultures have to offer.
Anthropologists at Washington State
University
Multicultural/Anthropological Practice link
Mexican Migrant Project Web Site: Gallery
Andrew G. Wood & Travis Du Bry, "Viva Computer Links Not Chain
Links! A
Review of Web Sites on the US-Mexican Border"