In a genealogy of literary multiculturalism christopher douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the united states into three periods. In a genealogy of literary multiculturalism christopher douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the united states into three periods. The first unified field theory of multicultural literature a genealogy of literary multiculturalism is a literary history of how we arrived at our current paradigm of writing reading and teaching multicultural literature in the united. In a genealogy of literary multiculturalism christopher douglas uncovers the largely unacknowledged role played by ideas from sociology and anthropology in nourishing the politics and forms of minority writers from diverse backgrounds douglas divides the history of multicultural writing in the united states into three periods