| Description |
x, 491 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Introduction / Avery F. Gordon and Christopher Newfield -- 2. From Farce to Tragedy: Reflections on the Reification of Race at Century's End / Jon Cruz -- 3. Gender, Class, and Multiculturalism: Rethinking "Race" Politics / Angela Y. Davis -- 4. Academic Apartheid: American Indian Studies and "Multiculturalism" / M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero -- 5. Like Being Mugged by a Metaphor: Multiculturalism and State Narratives / Wahneema Lubiano -- 6. Multiculturalism's Unfinished Business / Christopher Newfield and Avery F. Gordon -- 7. Manichacism and Multiculturalism / Cedric J. Robinson -- 8. Conjugating Subjects in the Age of Multiculturalism / Norma Alarcon -- 9. Injury, Identity, Politics / Wendy Brown -- 10. Multiculturalism as Political Strategy / Cynthia Hamilton -- 11. Racialization in the Post-Civil Rights Era / Michael Omi -- 12. Screening Resistance / Lourdes Portillo and Rosa Linda Fregoso -- 13. Language and Other Lethal Weapons: Cultural Politics and the Rites of Children as Translators of Culture / Antonio I. Castaneda -- 14. The Spanish Colon-ialista Narrative: Their Prospectus for Us in 1992 / Angie Chabram-Dernersesian -- 15. Multiculturalism and Racial Stratification / Neil Gotanda -- 16. The Erotic Zone: Sexual Transgression on the U.S.-Mexican Border / Ramon Gutierrez -- 17. Site-seeing through Asian America: On the Making of Fortune Cookies / Renee Tajima -- 18. Multiculturalism and Flexibility: Some New Directions in Global Capitalism / Richard P. Appelbaum -- 19. The Class Question in Global Capitalism: The Case of the Los Angeles Garment Industry / Edna Bonacich -- 20. Travelogue: The Garment Industry in Los Angeles and East Asia / Richard P. Appelbaum and Gregg Scott -- 21. Unified Capital and the Subject of Value / Paul Smith -- 22. Living on the Edge: Everyday Lives of Poor Chicano/Mexicano Families / Patricia Zavella -- 23. Machine Talk / Steve Fagin -- 24. "It's All Wrong, but It's All Right": Creative Misunderstandings in Intercultural Communication / George Lipsitz -- 25. Imagining Los Angeles in the Production of Multiculturalism / Lisa Lowe -- 26. A Style Nobody Can Deal With: Politics, Style, and the Postindustrial City in Hip Hop / Tricia Rose -- Annotated Bibliography / Darryl B. Dickson-Carr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 445-469) and index |
| Subject |
Cultural pluralism -- United States.
|
|
Minorities -- United States -- Social conditions.
|
|
Multiculturalism -- United States.
|
|
Multiculturalism.
|
| SUBJECT |
United States -- Ethnic relations.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140043
|
|
United States -- Social conditions -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140524
|
| Author |
Gordon, Avery.
|
|
Newfield, Christopher.
|
| LC no. |
95039877 |
| ISBN |
0816625468 (hc. : acid-free paper) |
|
0816625476 (paperback: acid-free paper) |
|
