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The readings are excerpted from the following books: • Bennett, David, ed., Multicultural States: Rethinking Difference and Identity, Routledge, 1998. • Bauman, Zygmunt, Globalization: The Human Consequence, Columbia University Press, 1998. • Chambers, Iain, Lidia Curti, eds. The Postcolonial Question, Common Skies, Divided Horizon, Routledge, London and New York, Jameson, Frederic ed. Cultures of Globalization, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1998 • Hagedorn, Jessica ed. Charlie Chan Is Dead: An Anthology of Contemporary Asian-American Fiction. Penguin USA, 1993. Hollinger, David A. PostEthnic America • Lavie, Smadar, Swedenburg, Ted, ed. Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, Duke University Press, Durham and London 1996 • Lowe, Lisa, Immigrant Acts, On Asian American Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, Durham, London, 1996 • Mignolo.,Walter, D., Local Histories/Global Designs, Coloniality, Subaltern Knowledges, and Border Thinking, Princeton University Press, Princeton, New Jersey • Mukherjee, Bharati, “Two Ways to Belong in America,” New York Times, September 22, 1996 • Pratt, Mary Louise, Imperial Eyes, Travel Writing and Transculturation, Routledge, London and New York, 1992. • Saldivar, Jose David, Border Matters, Remapping American Cultural Studies, University of California Press, Berkley and Los Angeles California, 1997 • Shohat, Ella, Stam Robert, Unthinking Eurocentrism, Multiculturalism and the Media, Routledge 1994. • Takaki, Ronald. A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America. Little, Brown, 1998 • Wilson, Rob, Wimal Dissanayake, Global/Local: Cultural Production and the Transnational Imaginary, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 1996. • Lauter, Paul, “American Studies and Ethnic Studies at the Borderlands Crossroads” 119-139, in From Walden Pond to Jurassic Park, Duke University Press, 2001 Lauter, Paul et al, eds. The Heath Anthology of American Literature, 2 vols. • LaGuardia, Dolores, Guth hans, eds., American Voice, Mayfield Publishing Company, 1998. (AV) • Anna Quilden “The Mosaic vs. the Myth” 85-88. • Arturo Madrid, “Diversity and Its Discontents”, 91-101. • Shelbee Steel, “White Guilt”, 274-282 • Zora Neal Hurston, “How It Feels to be Colored like Me” 259-267 • Miriam Schurman, “Affirmative Action or Negative Action”, 269-274 • David Bernstein, “Mixed like Me”, 288-296. • Maasik, Sonia & Solomon Jack, eds., Signs of Life, Bedford Books. Boston, 1997 (SL) • Jessica Hagedorn, “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck”, 306-314. • Brian Courtney, “Freedom from Choice” 519-523. • Postmodern American Fiction, A Norton Anthology, 1998.