Table of Contents:
  • Zora Neale Hurston, D'Arcy McNickle, and the culture of anthropology
  • Richard Wright, Robert Park, and the literature of sociology
  • Jade Snow Wong, Ralph Ellison, and desegregation
  • John Okada and the sociology of internment
  • Américo Paredes and the folklore of the border
  • Toni Morrison, Frank Chin, and cultural nationalisms, 1965-1975
  • N. Scott Momaday : blood and identity
  • Ishmael Reed and the search for survivals
  • Gloria Anzaldúa, Aztlán, and Aztec survivals
  • Conclusion : the multicultural complex and the incoherence of literary multiculturalism.