TY - BOOK ID - 472671 TI - Race in translation : culture wars around the postcolonial atlantic AU - Stam, Robert AU - Shohat, Ella PY - 2012 SN - 9780814798386 9780814798379 9780814723920 9780814725252 0814723926 0814725252 0814798373 0814798381 PB - New York ; London : New York University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Sociology of minorities KW - Sociology of culture KW - Race. KW - Culture. KW - Postcolonialism KW - Multiculturalism KW - Ethnicity KW - Race KW - Culture KW - Postcolonialisme KW - Multiculturalisme KW - Ethnicité KW - Identité (philosophie) KW - Ethnicité KW - Postcolonialisme. KW - Ethnicité. KW - Multiculturalisme. KW - Ethnic identity KW - Group identity KW - Cultural fusion KW - Cultural pluralism KW - Post-colonialism KW - Postcolonial theory KW - Political science KW - Decolonization KW - Cultural diversity policy KW - Cultural pluralism policy KW - Ethnic diversity policy KW - Social policy KW - Anti-racism KW - Cultural sociology KW - Civilization KW - Popular culture KW - Physical anthropology KW - Government policy KW - Social aspects UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:472671 AB - 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 the Neo-Cons and Nouveaux Philosophes, in condemning the "spectre" of multiculturalism and identity politics. At once a report from various "fronts," a mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about cross-border comparison and interlocution, the book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding of the diasporic and transnational movement of ideas. ER -