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This book is a collection of articles written by international members of the Spanish Association for Interdisciplinary India Studies, a scientific organization dedicated to the development of studies on India from an interdisciplinary perspective, and which seeks to promote cultural and scientific relations between India and Spain. It covers many areas of the Humanities such as literature, film studies, history, and literary theory from an Indo-Canadian perspective. The book is divided into...

Cultural pluralism --- Cultural fusion --- Cultural pluralism in literature. --- Cultural fusion in literature. --- Canadian literature --- Indic literature (English) --- Hybridity (Social sciences) in literature --- Pluralism (Social sciences) in literature --- Culture fusion --- Fusion, Cultural --- Hybridism (Social sciences) --- Hybridity (Social sciences) --- Cultural relations --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- History and criticism. --- Cultural hybridity --- Transculturalism --- Transculturation

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The culture of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century Britain is rarely credited with tolerance of diversity; this period saw a rising pride in national identity, the expansion of colonialism, and glorification of the Anglo-Saxon roots of the country. Yet at the same time, Wolfram Schmidgen observes, the concept of mixture became a critical element of Britons' belief in their own superiority. While the scientific, political, and religious establishment of the early 1600's could not imagine that anything truly formed, virtuous, or durable could be produced by mixing unlike kinds or merging absolute forms, intellectuals at the end of the century asserted that mixture could produce superior languages, new species, flawless ideas, and resilient civil societies. Exquisite Mixture examines the writing of Robert Boyle, John Locke, Daniel Defoe, and others who challenged the primacy of the one over the many, the whole over the parts, and form over matter. Schmidgen traces the emergence of the valuation of mixture to the political and scientific revolutions of the seventeenth century. The recurrent threat of absolutism in this period helped foster alliances within a broad range of writers and fields of inquiry, from geography, embryology, and chemistry to political science and philosophy. By retrieving early modern arguments for the civilizing effects of mixture, Schmidgen invites us to rethink the stories we tell about the development of modern society. Not merely the fruit of postmodernism, the theorization and valuation of hybridity have their roots in centuries past.

Cultural pluralism --- Cultural fusion --- Culture fusion --- Fusion, Cultural --- Hybridism (Social sciences) --- Hybridity (Social sciences) --- Cultural relations --- Acculturation --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Ethnicity --- Multiculturalism --- Cultural diversity --- Diversity, Cultural --- Diversity, Religious --- Ethnic diversity --- Pluralism (Social sciences) --- Pluralism, Cultural --- Religious diversity --- Culture --- History --- England --- Civilization --- Cultural hybridity --- Transculturalism --- Transculturation --- Cultural Studies. --- Literature. --- Medieval and Renaissance Studies.

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Literature and transnationalism. --- Transnationalism in literature. --- Language and culture. --- Literature and globalization. --- Literature, Modern --- Cultural fusion in literature. --- Transnationalism and literature --- Transnationalism --- Culture and language --- Culture --- Globalization and literature --- Globalization --- Hybridity (Social sciences) in literature --- History and criticism.

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Barack Obama’s historic presidency has re-inserted mixed race into the national conversation. While the troubled and pejorative history of racial amalgamation throughout U.S. history is a familiar story, The United States of the United Races reconsiders an understudied optimist tradition, one which has praised mixture as a means to create a new people, bring equality to all, and fulfill an American destiny. In this genealogy, Greg Carter re-envisions racial mixture as a vehicle for pride and a way for citizens to examine mixed America as a better America.Tracing the centuries-long conversation that began with Hector St. John de Crevecoeur’s Letters of an American Farmer in the 1780s through to the Mulitracial Movement of the 1990s and the debates surrounding racial categories on the U.S. Census in the twenty-first century, Greg Carter explores a broad range of documents and moments, unearthing a new narrative that locates hope in racial mixture. Carter traces the reception of the concept as it has evolved over the years, from and decade to decade and century to century, wherein even minor changes in individual attitudes have paved the way for major changes in public response. The United States of the United Races sweeps away an ugly element of U.S. history, replacing it with a new understanding of race in America.

Post-racialism --- United States --- Miscegenation --- Racially mixed people --- Color blindness (Race relations) --- Colorblindness (Race relations) --- Post-racial society --- Postracialism --- Race blindness --- Race relations --- Hybridity of races --- Racial amalgamation --- Racial crossing --- Bi-racial people --- Biracial people --- Interracial people --- Mixed race people --- Mixed-racial people --- Mulattoes --- Multiracial people --- Peoples of mixed descent --- Ethnic groups --- History. --- Miscegenation (Racist theory)

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Bridges theory, art, and practice to discuss emerging issues in transnational religious movements in Latina/o and African diasporas.

African diaspora in art. --- Afro-Caribbean cults. --- Cultural fusion and the arts. --- Goddesses in art. --- Mother goddesses. --- Orishas in art. --- Sex in art. --- Yemaja (Yoruba deity) --- LaSiren (Yoruba deity) --- Lemanjá (Yoruba deity) --- Yemayá (Yoruba deity) --- Yemoja (Yoruba deity) --- Gods, Yoruba --- Mother goddesses --- Sex in the arts --- Sexuality in art --- Orixás in art --- Goddesses --- Arts and cultural fusion --- Hybridity (Social sciences) and the arts --- Arts --- Cults, Afro-Caribbean --- Cults --- Afro-Caribbean religions.