Organic Hybridity or Commodification of Hybridity?: Comments on Mississippi Masala

kum-kum bhavnani is professor of sociology and women's studies and chair of the Women, Culture, Development Program at the University of California at Santa Barbara. She is the author of Talking Politics (Cambridge University Press, 1991), and co-editor of Shifting Identities, Shifting Racisms (London: Sage, 1994), Feminisms and Youth Cultures (Special Issue of Signs, 1998) and editor of Feminism and ‘Race’ (Oxford University Press: in press). She is presently completing a collaborative research project with Angela Y. Davis on incarcerated women.