BOOKS
American Multicultural Studies: Diversity of Race, Ethnicity, Gender and Sexuality provides an interdisciplinary view
of multicultural studies in the United States, addressing a wide range of topics that continue to define and shape this area
of study. This collection of essays responds to the need to open up a rich avenue for addressing current and continuing
issues of race, gender, ethnicity, sexuality, cultural diversity, and education in their varied forms. Substantial thematic
overlaps are found between sections and essays, all of which are oriented toward a single broad objective: to develop new
and different ways of addressing how multicultural issues, in their discursive sociocultural contexts, are inextricably linked
to the operations of power. Power, as a site of resistance to which it invariably gives rise, is tacked from a perspective that
attends to the complexities of America’s history and politics.
Available at: http://www.sagepub.com/authorDetails.nav?contribId=615374
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The Politics of Race and Ethnicity in the United States examines and analyzes Americanization, De-Americanization, and
racialized ethnic groups in the United States. More specifically, it shows the distinctive effectualness that Americanization
and de-Americanization serve in harboring and maintaining the racial status quo where "whiteness" as fundamental to an
American cultural identity is established and maintained. The question, then, of who is an American becomes overriding.
Although racialized ethnic groups remain unassimilated into the dominant culture, the recognition and celebration of the
nondominant cultures are important for multiculturalism. However, the nondominant cultures are tied to cultural
otherness. Cultural otherness is looked upon as un-Americanness. For this reason, there is a need to move beyond
multiculturalism. Postmulticulturalism, then, would be the new possibility. Yet in order for postmulticulturalism to be
realized, two things have to take place: one, America's monocultural state has to be transformed into a multicultural state;
and two, "whiteness" has to be denormalized in order to produce a post-white subject.
Available at: http://us.macmillan.com/author/sherrowopinder-1
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Whiteness and Racialized Ethnic Groups in the United States , in order to account for the never ending discrimination
toward racialized ethnic groups including First Nations, blacks, Chinese, and Mexicans, revisits the history of whiteness in
the United States. It shows the difference between remembering a history of human indignities and recreating one that
composes its own textual memory. More specifically, it reformulates how the historically reliant positionality of whiteness,
as a part of the everyday practice and discourse of white supremacy, would later become institutionalized. Even though
“whiteness studies,” with the intention of exposing white privilege, has entered the realm of academic research and is
moving toward antiracist forms of whiteness or, at least, toward antiracist approaches for a different form of whiteness, it
is not equipped to relinquish the privilege that comes with normalized whiteness. Hence, in order to construct a post white
identity, whiteness would have to be denormalized and freed of it of its presumptive hegemony.
Available at: https://rowman.com/ISBN/9780739164907
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From Welfare to Workfare examines the causes of the shift from welfare to workfare and documents the effects of this
policy change on women, especially single mothers, in Canada and the United States. It shows that soaring budget deficits,
combined with neoliberal economic reform in both Canada and the United States, produced a conservative discourse about
spending on social programs that legitimized welfare cuts. Nevertheless, such cuts need not automatically imply a shift to
workfare policy, especially since workfare raises practical issues, such as the shortage of affordable, reliable child care
for single mothers who are forced to work outside the home in exchange for receiving welfare assistance. A variety of
more progressive alternatives could have been imagined.
Available at: http://mellenpress.com/mellenpress.cfm?bookid=7239&pc=9