Race in Translation : : Culture Wars around the Postcolonial Atlantic / / Ella Shohat, Robert Stam.

While the term “culture wars” often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the debates within...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : New York University Press, , [2012]
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Year of Publication:2012
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • 1. The Atlantic Enlightenment
  • 2. A Tale of Three Republics
  • 3. The Seismic Shift and the Decolonization of Knowledge
  • 4. Identity Politics and the Right/Left Convergence
  • 5. France, the United States, and the Culture Wars
  • 6. Brazil, the United States, and the Culture Wars
  • 7. From Affirmative Action to Interrogating Whiteness
  • 8. French Intellectuals and the Postcolonial
  • 9. The Transnational Traffic of Ideas
  • Notes
  • Index
  • About the Authors