Race in translation: Kulturkämpfe rings um den postkolonialen Atlantik

While the term ""culture wars"" often designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking world spiralling around race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these discussions have raged in multiple sites and languages. Charting the multidirectional traffic of the debates, Stam/Shohat trace their literal and figurative translation, seen in French Postcolonial Studies and Brazilian Whiteness Studies, and in such cultural phenomena as Tropicalia and Hip-Hop. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians join hands with leftist intellectuals, along with

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1. The Atlantic Enlightenment -- 2. A Tale of Three Republics -- 3. The Seismic Shift and the Decolonization of Knowledge -- 4. Identity Politics and the Right/Left Convergence -- 5. France, the United States, and the Culture Wars -- 6. Brazil, the United States, and the Culture Wars -- 7. From Affirmative Action to Interrogating Whiteness -- 8. French Intellectuals and the Postcolonial -- 9. The Transnational Traffic of Ideas -- Notes -- Index -- About the Authors