Mapping multiculturalism /

What is multiculturalism? The word is used everywhere, often without being clearly defined. The first collection of this scope, Mapping Multiculturalism offers cogent critiques of the term and its uses by leading scholars in sociology, history, literary criticism, popular culture studies, ethnic stu...

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Contributors: Gordon, Avery, (Editor), Newfield, Christopher, (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [1996]
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction /
  • Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield
  • From farce to tragedy : reflections on the reification of race at century's end /
  • Jon Cruz
  • Gender, class, and multiculturalism : rethinking "race" politics /
  • Angela Y. Davis
  • Academic apartheid : American Indian studies and "multiculturalism" /
  • M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero
  • Like being mugged by a metaphor : multiculturalism and state narratives /
  • Wahneema Lubiano
  • Multiculturalism's unfinished business /
  • Christopher Newfield and Avery F. Gordon
  • Manichaeism and multiculturalism /
  • Cedric J. Robinson
  • Conjugating subjects in the age of multiculturalism /
  • Norma Alarcón
  • Injury, identity, politics /
  • Wendy Brown
  • Multiculturalism as political strategy /
  • Cynthia Hamilton
  • Racialization in the post-civil rights era /
  • Michael Omi
  • Screening resistance /
  • Lourdes Portillo and Rosa Linda Fregoso
  • Language and other lethal weapons : cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture /
  • Antonia I. Castañeda
  • The Spanish Colón-ialista narrative : their prospectus for Us in 1992 /
  • Angie Chabram-Dernersesian
  • Multiculturalism and racial stratification /
  • Neil Gotanda
  • The erotic zone : sexual transgression on the U.S.-Mexican border /
  • Ramón Gutiérrez
  • Site-seeing through Asian America : on the making of fortune cookies /
  • Renee Tajima
  • Multiculturalism and flexibility : some new directions in global capitalism /
  • Richard P. Appelbaum
  • The class question in global capitalism : the case of the Los Angeles garment industry /
  • Edna Bonacich
  • Travelogue : the garment industry in Los Angeles and East Asia /
  • Richard P. Appelbaum and Gregg Scott
  • Unified capital and the subject of value /
  • Paul Smith
  • Living on the edge : everyday lives of poor Chicano/Mexicano families /
  • Patricia Zavella
  • Machine talk /
  • Steve Fagin
  • "It's all wrong, but it's all right" : creative misunderstandings in intercultural communication /
  • George Lipsitz
  • Imagining Los Angeles in the production of multiculturalism /
  • Lisa Lowe
  • A style nobody can deal with : politics, style, and the postindustrial city in hip hop /
  • Tricia Rose
  • Annotated bibliography /
  • Darryl B. Dickson-Carr.