Research Catalog

Title

Multicultural states : rethinking difference and identity / edited by David Bennett.

Publication

London ; New York : Routledge, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Bennett, David, 1949-

Description

xiii, 305 pages; 25 cm

Summary

This text combines general theoretical discussions of the principles of cultural pluralism, nationalism, and minority identities with informative studies of specific local histories and political conflicts.

Subjects

• Études de cas
• Case studies
• Ethnicity > Political aspects
• Multiculturalism
• Cultural pluralism > Case studies
• Minderheden
• Etnisch bewustzijn
• Nationale identiteit
• Multiculturele samenlevingen
• Aufsatzsammlung
• Staat
• Multikulturelle Gesellschaft
• Ethnizität
• 71.37 ethnic groups
• multiculturalism

Genre/Form

• Case studies
• Case studies.
• Études de cas.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction / David Bennett. -- Culture's in between / Homi K. Bhabha. -- Liberalism and minority culture : reflections on "Culture's in between" / David Bennett and Homi K. Bhabha. -- Five types of identity and difference / Terry Eagleton. -- Economies of value / John Frow. -- Multiculturalism or multinationalism? / Maria Koundoura. -- Modernity and ethnicity in India / Dipesh Chakrabarty. -- Between ethnicity and nationhood : Shaka Day and the struggle over Zuluness in post-apartheid South Africa / Susan Mathieson and David Attwell. -- Postcolonialism : the case of Ireland / Terry Eagleton. -- Multicultural imagined communities : cultural difference and national identity in the USA and Australia / Jon Stratton and Ien Ang. -- Globalisation and the myth of ethnic community : Salvadoran refugees in multicultural states / Beryl Langer. -- The politics of national identity and the pedagogy of multiculturalism in the USA / Henry A. Giroux. -- Ethnicity and education : biculturalism in New Zealand / Anne Maxwell. -- The technology of ethnicity : Canadian multiculturalism and the language of law / Smaro Kamboureli. -- Lunching for the republic : feminism, the media and identity politics in the Australian republicanism debate / Meaghan Morris. -- Riding multiculturalism / Gargi Bhattacharyya. -- Relocations -- rethinking Britain from Accra, New York, and the map room of the Brittish museum / Abena P.A. Busia. -- Counterpoints : nationalism, colonialism. multiculturalism, etc. in personal perspective / Ihab Hassan.

ISBN

• 0415121582
• 9780415121583
• 0415121590
• 9780415121590
• 9780203007549
• 0203007549

LCCN

98017304

OCLC

• ocm38842166
• 38842166
• SCSB-8853043

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library