Beyond multiculturalism?

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What might take the place of late-generation European American ethnicity?

As Herbert J. Gans writes, ethnicity among fourth-, fifth- and later-generation descendants of European immigrants (LGEs) may be disappearing, and studies of LGEs should be undertaken along the lines that he proposes. LGE nostalgia for pasts that may never have existed and LGE intermarriage rates with non-whites as well as the ideology of multiculturalism, the easy availability of travel and communication, and the proliferation of dual citizenship might provide further contexts for such studies. In some cases, might the darkness of ethnicity precede a new dawn of transnational cultural and culinary practices, adopted from real or putative countries of origin?African and African American StudiesEnglish and American Literature and Languag

Obligations to Negroes Who Would Be Kin If They Were not Negro

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"Making America": On a new literary history of America

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Five Harlem Short Stories by Zora Neale Hurston

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O furacão Katrina: Nova Orleans perdida na enchente

Translated by Idelber Avelar, a brief essay by Greil Marcus and Werner Sollors, taken from A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009). In the essay, Marcus and Sollors reflect on the political effects of Hurricane Katrina on New Orleans – and on the United States – based on the rereading of literary works that dealt with previous climate catastrophes that befell the region.Em tradução de Idelber Avelar, um breve ensaio de Greil Marcus e Werner Sollors, extraído de A New Literary History of America (Harvard University Press, 2009). No ensaio, Marcus e Sollors refletem acerca dos efeitos políticos do furacão Katrina sobre Nova Orleans – e sobre os Estados Unidos – a partir da releitura de obras literárias que trataram de catástrofes climáticas anteriores que se abateram sobre a região

Black Humor: Reflections on an American Tradition

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