- Became a term for a new awareness of the diversity of American society, past and present, and for the vocal demands that jobs, education, and politics reflect that diversity.- A celebration of group difference and demands for group recognition.- One of the most striking developments of the 1990s. - Ex: as numbers of minority and female students at US colleges and universities rose, these institutions moved to diversify their faculties and revise the traditional curriculum. - One sign of this could be seen in the spread of academic programs dealing with the experience of specific groups (Black Studies, Latino Studies, Women's Studies, and so on). - Ex: literature departments added the writings go female and minority authors to those of white men. - Ex: many scholars now taught and wrote history in ways that stressed the experiences of diverse groups of Americans.

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