Hybridity and its discontents : politics, science, culture / edited by Avtar Brah and Annie E. Coombes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Brah, A.

Coombes, Annie E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural fusion.

Multiculturalism.

Assimilation (Sociology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (310 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2000.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Notes on contributors; Introduction:theconundrum of 'mixing'; 1 Sexual affronts and racial frontiers: European identities and the cultural politics of exclusion in colonial Southeast Asia; 2 Miscegenation, nation formation and cross-racial identifications in the early Francoist folkloric film musical; 3 From miscegenation to hybridity: mixed relationships and mixed parentage in profile; 4 Welcome home: between two cultures and two colours; 5 Deanimations: maps and portraits of life itself 1

6 Reading genes/writing nation: Reith, 'race' and the writings of geneticist Steve Jones7 Hybridity's discontents: rereading science and 'race'; 8 Translating the past: apartheid monuments in post-apartheid South Africa; 9 Technologies of conversion: cloth and Christianity in Polynesia; 10 Re-dressing the past: the Africanisation of sartorial style in contemporary South Africa; 11 Hybridity in a transnational frame: Latin-Americanist and post-colonial perspe

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-134-65005-1

1-134-65006-X

1-280-14857-8

0-203-99195-8

9780203991954

OCLC:

299570366