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Race, Culture and Difference

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Blending cultural studies and political analysis, this interdisciplinary text aims to both illuminate and move forward debates over "race" and its meanings in contemporary society and in educational and social policy. How is the concept "race" produced and sustained within society? How do notions of "us" and "them", "inclusion" and "exclusion", "centre" and "margin" originate and operate? The book insists on the centrality of culture to an understanding of "race", although not in the essentialist version of either the old multiculturalism or the "new racism". Linking up in fascinating ways with feminist, post-structuralist and postmodernist concerns in recent social and cultural theory, it examines the contribution of ideas such as "ethnicity", "community", "identity" and "difference". The authors present sympathetic critique of the organized forms of antiracism that have come to dominate educational policy. Their approaches also being to define an alternative agenda sensitive both to the problems and the possibilities of difference.
General Introduction PART ONE: ANTIRACISM: POSSIBILITIES AND LIMITS Changing the Subject? Racism, Culture and Education - Ali Rattansi The End of Antiracism - Paul Gilroy `It's racism what dunnit' - Philip Cohen Hidden Narratives in Theories of Racism Feminism and Antiracism - Caroline Knowles and Sharmila Mercer Difference, Diversity and Differentiation - Avtar Brah PART TWO: `US' AND `THEM' The Beginnings of English Literary Study in British India - Gauri Viswanathan Black Bodies, White Bodies - Sander L Gilman Racism, Representation, Psychoanalysis - Claire Pajaczkowska and Lola Young The Fact of Blackness - Frantz Fanon PART THREE: COMMUNITY AND DIASPORA Colonialism and Humanism - Robert A Young New Ethnicities - Stuart Hall British Asian Muslims and the Rushdie Affair - Tariq Modood Fundamentalism, Multi-Culturalism and Women in Britain - Nira Yuval-Davis
`Will prove useful as a textbook in key areas of cultural studies' - Feminist Review `An interesting book by virtue of the diversity of analyses, methods, and information used' - Contemporary Psychology
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