...The Multicultural Nation and the Violence of Liberal Rights Using James Baldwin’s nonfiction as muse and framing device, this essay examines the language and practice of identification in contemporary social redress efforts. It argues that the use of slogans such as “Todos Somos Arizona...

... Korean comfort women U.S. imperialism liberal multiculturalism House Resolution 121 California Code of Civil Procedure (§354.6) ...

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... critical ethnic studies multiculturalism liberal rights neoliberal university racial capital ...

... With the publication of her first novel in 1990, writer/performer Jessica Hagedorn emerged onto the national literary scene in the midst of U.S. culture wars. The era’s two critical currents of liberal multiculturalism and postcolonial studies impacted how scholars and readers figured Hagedorn’s...

... This chapter introduces the tension between democracy and hierarchy in liberal social orders and links this to concepts of mixture and purity; it shows how Latin American mestizaje has historically been and is still today seen as force for democratization. liberalism democracy hierarchy...

... on U.S. domestic cultural politics and the way the Asia-Pacific War is remembered. Korean comfort women U.S. imperialism liberal multiculturalism House Resolution 121 California Code of Civil Procedure (§354.6) ...

... superbloggers’ journalistic and personal ethics is implied or stated outright by suggestions that they are either blogging for the pure love of fashion (and so do not require remuneration) or for the love of attention and free stuff. What contemporary constructions of Asian cheapness reveal about the liberal...

... on U.S. domestic cultural politics and the way the Asia-Pacific War is remembered. Korean comfort women U.S. imperialism liberal multiculturalism House Resolution 121 California Code of Civil Procedure (§354.6) This chapter scrutinizes the American Cold War memories of the Asia-Pacific...

.... This phenomenon contributes to the changing character of the Canadian multicultural state, which focuses on culture while ignoring the real material interests of minority groups. Paradoxically, then, liberal Canadian governance in the postcolonial, globalized world continues to attempt to colonize and discipline...

... This chapter discusses the ways that multicultural state ideologies about citizenship exclude Pakistani women who refuse liberal constructions of “South Asia.” This category is produced through a process of racialization that includes a range of actors and institutions at multiple scales...

... vulnerability, and scholarly audacity. The introduction is an invitation to an always unfolding critical inquiry into the objects, methods, presuppositions, and analytics of ethnic studies. critical ethnic studies multiculturalism liberal rights neoliberal university racial capital ...

... transformation, including the abolition of U.S. and South African apartheid, as well as liberal shifts in racial and colonial social texts, including the emergence of multiculturalism and state-ordained national antiracism? What useful articulations can take shape between current forms of radical intellectual...

... The conclusion reviews how the various transactional realities discussed in the book paved the way for postwar forms of multicultural governance by (to different degrees) displacing hierarchical conceptions of race in favor of more plural and cultural conceptions of difference. It looks first...

...Purity and Mixture Chapter 1 argues that, like liberalism and mestizaje, human population genetics has been characterized by a tension between purity and mixture, which has run through its attempts to understand human diversity. In the genetic study of Latin American populations, that tension...

... Third World studies is not ethnic studies (Chicago or post-1968), multiculturalism, or postcolonialism. Rather the subjects of Third World studies are the oppressed, the people of the Third World. The field descends from the anticolonial, antiracist struggles of the Third World for self...

... Chapter 1 argues that, like liberalism and mestizaje, human population genetics has been characterized by a tension between purity and mixture, which has run through its attempts to understand human diversity. In the genetic study of Latin American populations, that tension is especially evident...