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1 online resource (xx, 363 pages) |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Print version record. |
Contents |
The Atlantic enlightenment -- A tale of three republics -- The seismic shift and the decolonization of knowledge -- Identity politics and the right / left convergence -- France, the United States, and the culture wars -- Brazil, the United States, and the culture wars -- From affirmative action to interrogating whiteness -- French intellectuals and the postcolonial -- The transnational traffic of ideas. |
Summary |
While the term "culture wars" often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiralling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in multiple sites and languages. Charting the multidirectional traffic of the debates, Stam/Shohat trace their literal and figurative translation, seen in French Postcolonial Studies and Brazilian Whiteness Studies, and in such cultural phenomena as Tropicalia and Hip-Hop. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians join hands with leftist intellectuals, along with th |
Language |
English. |
Subject |
Race.
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Culture.
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Postcolonialism -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
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Multiculturalism -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
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Ethnicity -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
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Racial Groups |
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Race.
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Postcolonialisme -- Atlantique, Région de l'.
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Multiculturalisme -- Atlantique, Région de l'.
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Ethnicité -- Atlantique, Région de l'.
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race (group of people)
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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Culture
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Ethnicity
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Multiculturalism
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Postcolonialism
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Race
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Atlantic Ocean Region
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Added Author |
Shohat, Ella, 1959- author
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Other Form: |
Print version: Stam, Robert, 1941- Race in translation. New York : New York University Press, ©2012 9780814798379 (DLC) 2011050487 (OCoLC)764339571 |
ISBN |
9780814723920 (electronic bk.) |
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0814723926 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814725252 (electronic bk.) |
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0814725252 (electronic bk.) |
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9780814798379 |
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0814798373 |
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9780814798386 |
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0814798381 |
Standard No. |
10.18574/9780814723920 doi |
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AU@ 000053301694 |
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AU@ 000055811642 |
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AU@ 000060072661 |
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DEBBG BV043130066 |
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DEBBG BV044162737 |
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DEBSZ 42141488X |
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DEBSZ 431101515 |
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DEBSZ 449286045 |
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NLGGC 343112167 |
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NZ1 14538215 |
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