About the Book
What is multiculturalism? The word is used everywhere, often without being clearly defined. The first collection of this scope, Mapping Multiculturalism offers cogent critiques of the term and its uses by leading scholars in sociology, history, literary criticism, popular culture studies, ethnic studies, and critical legal studies. The contributors look at current uses of the rubric “multicultural” and offer groundbreaking analyses of complex relationships between popular culture, political events, and intellectual trends. Featuring essays by authors, activists, artists, and theoreticians, Mapping Multiculturalism represents the entire range of multicultural studies today through essays that demarcate the cutting edge of contemporary cultural politics.
Contributors: Norma AlarcÓn, U of California, Berkeley; Richard P. Appelbaum, U of California, Santa Barbara; Edna Bonacich, U of California, Riverside; Wendy Brown, U of California, Santa Cruz; Darryl B. Dickson-Carr, Florida State U; Antonia I. CastaÑeda, U of Texas, Austin; Angie Chabram-Dernersesian, U of California, Davis; Jon Cruz, U of California, Santa Barbara; Angela Y. Davis, U of California, Santa Cruz; Steve Fagin, U of California, San Diego; Rosa Linda Fregoso, U of California, Davis; Neil Gotanda, Western State U; M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero, San Francisco State U; RamÓn GutiÉrrez, U of California, San Diego; Cynthia Hamilton, U of Rhode Island; George Lipsitz, University of California, San Diego; Lisa Lowe, U of California, San Diego; Wahneema Lubiano, Princeton U; Michael Omi, U of California, Berkeley; Lourdes Portillo; Cedric Jo Robinson, U of California, Santa Barbara; Tricia Rose, New York U; Gregg Scott; Paul Smith, George Mason U; Renee Tajima; Patricia Zavella, U of California, Santa Cruz.
Avery F. Gordon teaches sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Christopher Newfield teaches English, also at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Table of Contents:
Part I Mapping multiculturalism From farce to tragedy: Reflections on the reification of race at century's end Jon Cruz ; Gender, class, and multiculturalism: Rethinking "race" politics Angela Y. Davis ; Academic apartheid: American Indian studies and multiculturalism M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero ; Like being mugged by a metaphor: Multiculturalism and state narratives Wahneema Lubiano ; Multiculturalism's unfinished business Christopher Newfield & Avery Gordon; Manichaeism and multiculturalism Cedric J. Robinson. Part II Rethinking the political subject Conjugating subjects: The heteroglossia of essence and resistance Norma Alarcon ; Injury, identity, politics Wendy Brown ; Multiculturalism as political strategy Cynthia Hamilton ; Racialization in the post-civil rights era Michael Omi ; Screening resistance Lourdes Portillo & Rosa Linda Fregoso. Part III Reading multicultural narratives Language and other lethal weapons: Cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture Antonia I. Castaneda ; The Spanish colon-ialista narrative: Their prospectus for us in 1992 Angie Chabram-Dernersesian ; Multiculturalism and racial stratification Neil Gotanda ; The erotic zone: Sexual transgression on the us -Mexican border Ramon Gutierrez ; Site-seeing through Asian America: On the making of fortune cookies Renee Tajima. Part IV Multi-capitalism Multiculturalism and flexibility: Some new directions in global capitalism Richard P. Appelbaum ; The class question in global capitalism: The case of the Los Angeles garment industry Edna Bonacich ; Travelogue: The garment industry in Los Angeles and East Asia Richard P. Appelbaum & Gregg Scott ; Unified capital and the subject of value Paul Smith ; Living on the edge: Everyday lives of poor Chicano/Mexicano families Patricia Zavella. Part V Multiculturalism and the production of culture Machine talk Steve Fagin ; "It's all wrong, but it's all right": Creative misunderstandings in intercultural communication George Lipsitz ; Imagining Los Angeles in the production of multiculturalism Lisa Lowe ; A style nobody can deal with: Politics, style, and the postindustrial city in hip hop Tricia Rose.
