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Name:- Krishna Gujarati V.Class:- M.A. Sem-2
Paper:- 08 Cultural StudiesTopic:- American Multiculturalism
Role no.:- 17Batch:- 2015-17
Submitted t:- M.K.B.U. Dept.of.English
What is culture?
• ‘Culture’ is derives from Latin word cultura• To ‘Honour’ and ‘Protect”• Culture is a symbolic communication.• Culture is the systems of Knowledge shared by
a relatively large group of people.• ‘culture is the learned behaviour of society or
a subgroup’.
Types of cultural studies
American multiculturalism
What is multicultural? “ Multiculturalism “ is the co-existence of
diverse culture. where culture includes racial, religious, or cultural groups and it is manifested in customary behaviors, cultural assumptions and values, patterns of thinking, and communicative styles.
American multiculturalism
• As a philosophy, multiculturalism began as part of the pragmatism movement at the end of the nineteen century in Europe and the United states. American multiculturalism was come into existence in 1964 with the passing civil right ect.
American multiculturalism
American multiculturalism
African American
writers
Latina/o writers
American Indian
literatures
Asian American
writers
African American writers
• American African writers is widely pursued in American literature criticism from the recovery of the eighteenth century poets such as Phillies Wealthy to the experimental novel of Toni Morison, in Shadow and Act 1964 novel Ralph Ellison Argue that any viable theatre of Negro American culture obligates us to fashion a more adequate theory of American culture as a what.
African American writers
Harriet Wilson – “Our Nig” Alice Walker – “The color purple”Hunnah Craft- “The Bond Woman’s Narrative”
Latina\o writers
• Latina\o writers are also know as Mexican American .
• The term indicates broad sense of ethnicity among Spanish-speaking and most influential group of Latina\o ethnicities in the United States.
Niggli - “Mexican village” (1945)
Richard Rodriguez – “Hunger of Memory”(1981)
American Indian Literature
• iN pre dominantly oral cultures. Stalling passes and religious beliefs moral values. Practical codes and practical lesson of everyday life. For American Indians stories are a source of strength in the face of centuries of silencing by Euro American.