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Book SynopsisWhat is multiculturalism? This collection offers critiques of the term and its uses. The contributors look at the current use of the rubric "multicultural" and offer analyses of complex relationships between popular culture, political events and intellectual trends.
Table of ContentsPart I Mapping multiculturalism 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 & Avery Gordon; Manichaeism and multiculturalism Cedric J. Robinson. Part II Rethinking the political subject Conjugating subjects: The heteroglossia of essence and resistance Norma Alarcon ; Injury, identity, politics Wendy Brown ; Multiculturalism as political strategy Cynthia Hamilton ; Racialization in the post-civil rights era Michael Omi ; Screening resistance Lourdes Portillo & Rosa Linda Fregoso. Part III Reading multicultural narratives Language and other lethal weapons: Cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture Antonia I. Castaneda ; The Spanish colon-ialista narrative: Their prospectus for us in 1992 Angie Chabram-Dernersesian ; Multiculturalism and racial stratification Neil Gotanda ; The erotic zone: Sexual transgression on the us -Mexican border Ramon Gutierrez ; Site-seeing through Asian America: On the making of fortune cookies Renee Tajima. Part IV Multi-capitalism 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 & Gregg Scott ; Unified capital and the subject of value Paul Smith ; Living on the edge: Everyday lives of poor Chicano/Mexicano families Patricia Zavella. Part V Multiculturalism and the production of culture 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.
