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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450233703321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2000

ISBN

1-134-65006-X

1-280-14857-8

0-203-99195-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BrahA

CoombesAnnie E

Disciplina

306

Soggetti

Cultural fusion

Multiculturalism

Assimilation (Sociology)

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.