2. MULTICULTURAL/ANTHROPOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVES

Alfred Steiglitz, The Steerage

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"
 

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