TY  - BOOK
AU  - Stam,Robert
AU  - Shohat,Ella
TI  - Race in translation: culture wars around the postcolonial Atlantic 
SN  - 9780814723920
AV  - CB195 .S73 2012eb
U1  - 305.8009163 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - New York University Press
KW  - Race
KW  - Culture
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Atlantic Ocean Region
KW  - Multiculturalism
KW  - Ethnicity
KW  - Racial Groups
KW  - Postcolonialisme
KW  - Atlantique, Région de l'
KW  - Multiculturalisme
KW  - Ethnicité
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Discrimination & Race Relations
KW  - Ethnic Studies
KW  - General
KW  - Minority Studies
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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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