Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, TransruptionsBarnor Hesse This anthology reconsiders the social, political and intellectual meanings of multiculturalism in the West, particularly Britain. In introducing a new conceptual language for thinking about it, the volume stresses the importance of distinguishing between the multicultural as a signifier of the unsettled meanings of cultural differences, and multiculturalism as the signfied of attempts to 'fix' their meaning in national imaginaries. The book also casts the debates about multiculturalism in the contexts of globalization, post-colonialism and what Barnor Hesse calls 'multicultural transruptions' - which he sees as resurgent, irrepressible multicultural issues which unsettle the racialized meanings of social norms and the cultural habits of national politics. |
Contents
Nations and Diasporas the Case | 33 |
Transatlantic Black | 51 |
Packaging and unpacking black performance 53 Race | 70 |
Time and Power Geometries 13 | 73 |
Chinese in Britain or British Chinese? 75 The takeaway | 94 |
unravelling the Windrush symbol 97 Babylon | 118 |
the rise and rise of the Asian | 126 |
unraceing | 137 |
Eroticism and social power? 155 Batty riders batty men | 166 |
Living | 185 |
Questions of location 190 Problematizing whiteness | 195 |
Living the moments of entanglement 201 | 201 |
the Multicultural Question | 209 |
Conditions of emergence 212 The subaltern proliferation | 221 |
Unsettling culture 225 Unsettling the foundations of | 236 |
Bibliography | 242 |
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Un/settled Multiculturalisms: Diasporas, Entanglements, Transruptions Barnor Hesse No preview available - 2000 |