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Brigham Young University

2006

Race

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Black And Mormon By Newell G. Bringhurst And Darron T. Smith, Eds, Emmanuel A. Kissi Dec 2006

Black And Mormon By Newell G. Bringhurst And Darron T. Smith, Eds, Emmanuel A. Kissi

BYU Studies Quarterly

Newell G. Bringhurst and Darron T. Smith, eds. Black and Mormon. Urbana, Ill.: University of Illinois Press, 2004.


Versions Of America: Reading American Literature For Identity And Difference, Raj G. Chetty Aug 2006

Versions Of America: Reading American Literature For Identity And Difference, Raj G. Chetty

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My paper examines how American authors of the South Asian Diaspora (Indian-American or South Asian American) can be read 1) as simply American and 2) without regard to ethnicity. I develop this argument using American authors Jhumpa Lahiri, a first generation American of Bengali-Indian descent, and Bharati Mukherjee, an American of Bengali-Indian origin. I borrow from Deepika Bahri's materialist aesthetics in postcolonialism (in turn borrowed from members of the Frankfurt School of Critical Theory) and include theoretical insights from Rey Chow, Graham Huggan, and R. Radhakrishnan regarding multiculturalism, identity politics, and diaspora studies. Huggan and Radhakrishnan's insights are especially useful …


All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions Of Race And Lineage. By Armand L. Mauss, Cardell K. Jacobson May 2006

All Abraham's Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions Of Race And Lineage. By Armand L. Mauss, Cardell K. Jacobson

BYU Studies Quarterly

Armand L. Mauss. All Abraham’s Children: Changing Mormon Conceptions of Race and Lineage. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003.