@article{1479579,
      recid = {1479579},
      author = {Shohat, Ella,  and Stam, Robert, },
      title = {Race in Translation : Culture Wars around the Postcolonial  Atlantic /},
      pages = {1 online resource},
      abstract = {While the term "culture wars" often designates the heated  arguments in the English-speaking world spiraling around  race, the canon, and affirmative action, in fact these  discussions have raged in diverse sites and languages. Race  in Translation charts the transatlantic traffic of the  debates within and between three zones-the U.S., France,  and Brazil. Stam and Shohat trace the literal and  figurative translation of these multidirectional  intellectual debates, seen most recently in the emergence  of postcolonial studies in France, and whiteness studies in  Brazil. The authors also interrogate an ironic convergence  whereby rightist politicians like Sarkozy and Cameron join  hands with some leftist intellectuals like Benn Michaels,  Žižek, and Bourdieu in condemning "multiculturalism" and  "identity politics." At once a report from various "fronts"  in the culture wars, a mapping of the germane literatures,  and an argument about methods of reading the cross-border  movement of ideas, the book constitutes a major  contribution to our understanding of the Diasporic and the  Transnational.While the term "culture wars" often  designates the heated arguments in the English-speaking  world spiraling around race, the canon, and affirmative  action, in fact these discussions have raged in diverse  sites and languages. Race in Translation charts the  transatlantic traffic of the debates within and between  three zones-the U.S., France, and Brazil. Stam and Shohat  trace the literal and figurative translation of these  multidirectional intellectual debates, seen most recently  in the emergence of postcolonial studies in France, and  whiteness studies in Brazil. The authors also interrogate  an ironic convergence whereby rightist politicians like  Sarkozy and Cameron join hands with some leftist  intellectuals like Benn Michaels, Žižek, and Bourdieu in  condemning "multiculturalism" and "identity politics." At  once a report from various "fronts" in the culture wars, a  mapping of the germane literatures, and an argument about  methods of reading the cross-border movement of ideas, the  book constitutes a major contribution to our understanding  of the Diasporic and the Transnational.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1479579},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814798379.001.0001},
}