Urban Triage: Race and the Fictions of Multiculturalism

by James Kyung-Jin Lee

Assesses fictional representations of racial conflict, cooperation, and complicity amid the urban crisis of the 1980s

In the 1980s, America witnessed an explosion in the production, popularity, and influence of literary works by people of color and a decade long economic downturn that severely affected America's inner cities and the already disadvantaged communities of color that lived there. Marked by soaring levels of unemployment,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816641811
• ISBN13: 9780816641819
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"