ISBN:
0203991958
,
9780203991954
Language:
English
Pages:
Online Ressource (x, 299 p.)
,
ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
Parallel Title:
Druckausg. Hybridity and its discontents
DDC:
306
Keywords:
Cultural fusion
;
Multiculturalism
;
Assimilation (Sociology)
;
POLITICAL SCIENCE ; Public Policy ; Cultural Policy
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Popular Culture
;
Assimilation (Sociology)
;
Cultural fusion
;
Multiculturalism
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Assimilation
;
Multiculturele samenlevingen
;
Rassenvermenging
;
Assimilatie (sociologie)
;
Cultuurcontact
;
Interculturele vergelijking
;
SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
;
Kultursoziologie
;
Multikulturalismus
;
Electronic books
;
Electronic books
;
Aufsatzsammlung
;
Rassenmischung
;
Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
;
Assimilation
Abstract:
Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The contributors trace manifestations of hybridity in debates about miscengenation and racial purity, in scientific notions of genetics and 'race', in processes of cultural translation, and in ideas of nation, community and belonging. The contributors begin by examining the persistence of anxieties about racial 'contamination', from nineteenth-century fears of miscegenation to more recent debates about mixed race relationships and parenting. Examining the lived experiences of children of 'mixed parentage', contributors ask why such fears still thrive in a supposedly tolerant culture? The contributors go on to discuss how science, while apparently neutral, is part of cultural discourses, which affect its constructions and classifications of gender and 'race'. The contributors examine how new cultural forms emerge from borrowings, exchanges and intersections across ethnic and cultural boundaries, and conclude by investigating the contemporary experience of multiculturalism in an age of contested national borders and identities
Abstract:
Miscegenation and racial purity. Sexual affront and racial frontiers: European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial southeast Asian / Ann Laura Stoler ; Miscegenation, nation formation and cross-racial identifications in the early Francoist folkloric film musical / Jo Labanyi ; From miscegenation to hybridity: mixed relationships and mixed parentage in profile / Ann Phoenix and Charlie Owen ; Welcome home: between two cultures and two colours / Amal Treacher -- Engineering the future: genetic carrtographies and the discourse of science. Deanimations: maps and portraits of life itself / Donna Haraway ; Reading genes: writing nation: Reith, 'race' and the writings of geneticist Steve Jones / Deborah Lynn Steinberg ; Hybridity's discontents: rereading science and 'race' / Lola Young -- Cultural translation. Translating the past: apartheid monuments in post-apartheid South Africa / Annie M. Coombes ; Technologies of conversion: cloth and Christianity in Polynesia / Nicholas Thomas ; Re-dressing thev past: the Africanisation of sartorial style in contemporary South Africa / Sandra Klopper -- Reconfiguring nation, community and belonging. Hybridity in a transnational frame: Latin-Americanist and post-colonial perspectives on cultural studies / John Kraniauskas ; Bad faith: anti-essentialism, universalism, and Islamism / S. Sayyid ; The scent of memory: strangers, our own and others / Avtar Brah.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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