Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism - New Edition (Critique. Influence. Change)

Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism - New Edition (Critique. Influence. Change)

Pnina Werbner (Editor), Tariq Modood (Editor), Homi K. Bhabha (Foreword by)
$27.93
Publication Date: February 15th, 2015
Publisher:
Zed Books
ISBN:
9781783601615
Pages:
320
Usually Ships in 1 to 5 Days

Description

In this era where nearly everyone at least pays lip service to the importance of multiculturalism, why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? Why does racism still persist—and how does it strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?

Bringing together some of the world’s most influential postcolonial theorists, Debating Cultural Hybridity examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in our ever-more-connected, yet crisis-ridden and xenophobic world. Taking as its starting point the fact that personal identities are themselves multicultural, the contributors illuminate the complexity and flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism remain so difficult to fight for, even today.

About the Author

Tariq Modood is professor of sociology, politics, and public policy at the University of Bristol.

Homi K. Bhabha is professor of English and African-American studies at Harvard University.

Praise for Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism - New Edition (Critique. Influence. Change)

“It is marvelous to see this early collection of classic insightful articles on hybridity published again, with new introductions.”
— Jan Nederveen Pieterse, University of California, Santa Barbara

“An indispensable classic text for anyone interested in a complex and nuanced analysis of questions of culture, identity, and hybridity.”
— Avtar Brah, Birkbeck University of London

“In the globalized world of the twenty-first century, cultural mixing and ethnic cross-fertilization is a commonplace experience. Debating Cultural Hybridity offers a superb set of essays to understand the complexity of this experience and its political and social implications.”
— Ien Ang, University of Western Sydney

“The reissue of these seminal essays reminds us that the turn to hybridity was never an invitation to celebration, but rather a challenge to think about the necessary conditions for an emancipatory politics. Given the civilizational hierarchy and liberal homogeneity that has informed the racisms of the 'war on terror' era, their exploration of the complex task of building anti-racist alliances remains vital.”
— Gavan Titley, Maynooth University

Other Books in Series