Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-racism

Werbner, Pnina (Editor)/ Modood, Tariq (Editor)

ISBN 10: 1783601612 / ISBN 13: 9781783601615

Published by Zed Books, 2015

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2nd new edition. 320 pages. 8.50x5.50x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-racism
• Publisher: Zed Books
• Publication Date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1783601612
• ISBN 13: 9781783601615
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.45 kilograms

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Synopsis

Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism? Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism. Starting from the reality that personal identities are multicultural identities, Debating Cultural Hybridity illuminates the complexity and the flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism are today still such hard roads to travel.

About the Authors

Pnina Werbner is professor emerita in social anthropology at Keele University. She is an urban anthropologist who has studied Muslim South Asians in Britain and Pakistan and, more recently, the women's movement and the Manual Workers Union in Botswana.

Richard Werbner is emeritus professor of African anthropology at the University of Manchester. Among his books are Tears of the Dead (1991) and Postcolonial Subjectivities in Africa (Zed 2002).