Race in Translation : Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic

• Tác giả: Ella Shohat, Robert Stam
• ISBN-13: 978-0814723920
• Thông tin xuất bản: New York : New York University Press, 2012.
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource.
• Bộ sưu tập: Tài liệu truy cập mở
• ID: 462061
• Chủ đề: 1. Culture; 2. Ethnicity--Atlantic Ocean Region; 3. Multiculturalism--Atlantic Ocean Region; 4. Postcolonialism--Atlantic Ocean Region; 5. Race; 6. Racial Groups; 7. Ethnicite--Atlantique, Region de l'; 8. Multiculturalisme--Atlantique, Region de l'; 9. Postcolonialisme--Atlantique, Region de l'; 12. Ethnicity; 13. Multiculturalism; 14. Postcolonialism; 16. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Anthropology; 17. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Discrimination & Race Relations; 18. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Ethnic Studies; 19. SOCIAL SCIENCE--Minority Studies

Tóm tắt

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