Race in translation : culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic / Robert Stam and Ella Shohat.

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The Atlantic enlightenment -- A tale of three republics -- The seismic shift and the decolonization of knowledge -- Identity politics and the right / left convergence -- France, the United States, and the culture wars -- Brazil, the United States, and the culture wars -- From affirmative action to interrogating whiteness -- French intellectuals and the postcolonial -- The transnational traffic of ideas.

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 th

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