Culture and Difference: Critical Perspectives on the Bicultural Experience in the United States

Introduction. The politics of biculturalism: culture and difference in the formation of Warriors for Gringostroika and The New Mestizas / Antonia Darder -- Rethinking Afrocentricity: the foundation of a theory of critical Africentricity / Makungu M. Akinyela -- Chicana identity matters / Deena J. González -- Racialized boundaries, class relations, and cultural politics: the Asian-American and Latino experience / Rodolfo D. Torres and ChorSwang Ngin -- Cultural democracy and the revitalization of the U.S. labor movement / Kent Wong -- The Zone of black bodies: language, black consciousness, and adolescent identities / Garrett Duncan -- The alter-native grain: theorizing Chicano/a popular culture / Alicia Gaspar de Alba -- Public space and culture: a critical response to conventional and postmodern visions of city life / David R. Diaz -- The idea of Mestizaje and the "race" problematic: racialized media discourse in a post-fordist landscape / Victor Valle and Rodolfo D. Torres -- Working with gay/homosexual Latinos with HIV disease: spiritual emergencies and culturally based psycho-therapeutic treatments / Lourdes Arguelles and Anne Rivero -- African Americans, gender, and religiosity / Daphne C. Wiggins -- Voice and empowerment: the struggle for poetic expression / Luis J. Rodriguez -- Bicultural strengths and struggles of Southeast Asian Americans in school / Peter Nien-chu Kiang -- Language policy and social implications for addressing the bicultural immigrant experience in the United States / Alberto M. Ochoa.