The Multi-cultural Southwest A Reader Paperback - 2001
by Meléndez, A. Gabriel [Editor]; Young, M. Jane [Editor]; Moore, Patricia [Editor]; Pynes, Patrick [Editor];
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As Americans debate what it means to be a multicultural society, one need only turn for lessons to the Southwest, where distinct peoples have coexisted over centuries. Here difference has not only survived but thrived in a melting pot of races and customs.
This book presents a montage of differing perspectives demonstrating that there is no single, definitive description of the Southwest. It brings together a host of writers, from early travelers and historians to contemporary commentators, who explore a region diverse in its people and ecology and show it to be not just a segment of the nation, but rather a border contact zone.
The editors have assembled an interdisciplinary composite, drawing on history, sociology, anthropology, and geography. Fiction, essays, poetry, newspaper articles, and interviews with local inhabitants add a colorful dimension to the coverage. All of the contributions reveal the tremendous impact that everyday occurrences can have and show how life in the Southwest is affected by the interweaving of social, cultural, and ecological forces. Together they demonstrate the role played by personal and cultural memory in creating alternative views of environment, landscape, human social interaction, conquest, dispossession, technological change, and the survival of cultures."The Multicultural Southwest" is a multifaceted work that shows the many ways in which the past continues to affect the present. It will create in readers an awareness of the phenomena that fuel human imagination and creativity as it opens their eyes to the possibilities of the future.
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- Title The Multi-cultural Southwest A Reader
- Author Meléndez, A. Gabriel [Editor]; Young, M. Jane [Editor]; Moore, Patricia [Editor]; Pynes, Patrick [Editor];
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Pb Ptg.
- Pages 294
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Arizona Press, Tucson, Arizona, U.S.A.
- Date October 2001
- ISBN 9780816522163
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
- Ethnic Orientation: Multicultural
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- Univ PR Books for Public Libry, 01/01/2002, Page 115
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