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"An important, stringent critique of the hegemonic versions of multiculturalism touted in both popular and academic spheres. San Juan provides a new reality to contend with--a new version of the present, one in which erased histories of racism, oppression, exploitation, and the struggle of marginalized groups are restored."--Neferti X. M. Tadiar, University of California, Santa Cruz
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
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1. “Can’t We Get Along?” Racial Politics and Institutional Racism
2. Performing Race: Articulations of Gender, Sexuality, and Nationalism
3. Allegories of Asian American Experience
4. Ethnicity and the Political Economy of Difference
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5. “Culture Wars” Revisited
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6. Questioning Contemporary Cultural Studies
7. Postcolonial Criticism and the Vicissitudes of Uneven Development
8. For a Permanent Cultural Revolution: From Raymond Williams to Frantz Fanon
Afterword
Works Cited
Index
About the author
E. San Juan Jr. is a Fellow at the Center for the Humanities, Wesleyan University. He was recently chair of the Department of Comparative American Cultures, Washington State University and visiting professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Trento (Italy) and Tamkang University (Taiwan). Among his recent books are Beyond Postcolonial Theory; From Exile to Diaspora: The Filipino Experience in the United States; Hegemony and Strategies of Transgression; and After Postcolonialism, winner of the 2001 Gustavus Myers Human Rights Center Outstanding Book Award.
Summary
Offers an historical-materialist critique of practices in multiculturalism and cultural studies. Rejecting contemporary theories of inclusion as affirmations of the capitalist status quo, this book envisions a future of politically equal and economically empowered citizens through the democratisation of power and the socialisation of property.
