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Un/settled Multiculturalisms

Un/settled Multiculturalisms

Paperback

General Racism & Ethnic Studies

ISBN10: 1856495604
ISBN13: 9781856495608
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Nov 1 2000
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.77
Height: 0.62 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

This anthology reconsiders the social, political and intellectual meanings of multiculturalism in the West, particularly Britain. In introducing a new conceptual language for thinking about it, the volume stresses the importance of distinguishing between the multicultural as a signifier of the unsettled meanings of cultural differences, and multiculturalism as the signfied of attempts to 'fix' their meaning in national imaginaries. The book also casts the debates about multiculturalism in the contexts of globalization, post-colonialism and what Barnor Hesse calls 'multicultural transruptions' - which he sees as resurgent, irrepressible multicultural issues which unsettle the racialized meanings of social norms and the cultural habits of national politics.

Divided into two parts, the first considers a variety of diaspora formations ranging from the Muslim Umma and Black Britain to the Chinese foodscape and

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General Racism & Ethnic Studies