Hybridity and Its Discontents - Politics, Science, Culture

Informationen zum Autor Avtar Brah, Annie Coombes Klappentext "Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The book traces manifestations of hybridity in debates about miscegenation and racial purity, in scientific notions of genetics and 'race', in processes of cultural translation, and in ideas of nation, community and belonging. The readings begin by examining the persistence of anxieties about racial 'contamination', from nineteenth-century fears of miscegenation to more recent debates about mixed race relationships and parenting. Examining the lived experiences of children of 'mixed parentage', contributors ask why such fears still thrive in a supposedly tolerant culture? The contributors go on to discuss how science, while apparently neutral, is part of cultural discourses, which affects its constructions and classifications of gender and 'race'. The contributors examine how new cultural forms emerge from borrowings, exchanges and intersections across ethnic and cultural boundaries, and conclude by investigating the contemporary experience of multiculturalism in an age of contested national borders and identities. Zusammenfassung Hybridity and its Discontents explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in countries such as America, Britain and South Africa. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1. Miscegenation and Racial Purity 2. Engineering the Future: Genetic Cartographies and the Discourse of Science 3. Cultural Translation 4. Reconfiguring Nation, Community and Belonging

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• Authors: A. Brah, Avtar Coombes Brah, Annie E. Brah Coombes, COOMBES ANNIE E BRAH A
• Assisted by: Avtar Brah (Editor), Brah Avtar (Editor), Annie Coombes (Editor), Annie E. Coombes (Editor), Coombes Annie (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.08.2000
• EAN: 9780415194020
• ISBN: 978-0-415-19402-0
• No. of pages: 320
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); History, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, Cultural Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, Anthropology, Humanities, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Biracial & Multiracial Studies