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Author Stam, Robert, 1941- author

Title Race in translation : culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat.

Imprint New York : New York University Press, ©2012.

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 363 pages)
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note 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.
Culture.
Postcolonialism -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
Multiculturalism -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
Ethnicity -- Atlantic Ocean Region.
Racial Groups
Race.
Postcolonialisme -- Atlantique, Région de l'.
Multiculturalisme -- Atlantique, Région de l'.
Ethnicité -- Atlantique, Région de l'.
race (group of people)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Ethnic Studies -- General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Culture
Ethnicity
Multiculturalism
Postcolonialism
Race
Atlantic Ocean Region
Added Author Shohat, Ella, 1959- author
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.)
0814723926 (electronic bk.)
9780814725252 (electronic bk.)
0814725252 (electronic bk.)
9780814798379
0814798373
9780814798386
0814798381
Standard No. 10.18574/9780814723920 doi
AU@ 000053301694
AU@ 000055811642
AU@ 000060072661
DEBBG BV043130066
DEBBG BV044162737
DEBSZ 42141488X
DEBSZ 431101515
DEBSZ 449286045
NLGGC 343112167
NZ1 14538215

 
    
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