Hybridity and its Discontents : Politics, Science, Culture

ISBN-13: 9780415194037 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 320 str.

Annie E. Coombes; Avtar Brah

Opis

This text explores the history and experience of 'hybridity' - the mixing of peoples and cultures - in North and South America, Latin America, Britain and Ireland, South Africa, Asia and the Pacific. The contributors trace manifestations of hybridity in debates about miscengenation and racial purity, in scientific notions of genetics and 'race', in processes of cultural translation, and in ideas of nation, community and belonging. The contributors begin by examining the persistence of anxieties about racial 'contamination', from 19th-century fears of miscegenation to more recent debates about mixed race relationships and parenting. Examining the lived experiences of children of 'mixed parentage', contributors ask why such fears still thrive in a supposedly tolerant culture? The contributors go on to discuss how science, while apparently neutral, is part of cultural discourses, which affect its constructions and classifications of gender and 'race'.

Recenzje

'This book is valuable because it contains essays that critically examine a concept that has been of importance in various social and historical contexts.' - Karen Fog Olwig, University of Copenhagen

Spis treści

Introduction 1. Miscegenation and Racial Purity 2. Engineering the Future: Genetic Cartographies and the Discourse of Science 3. Cultural Translation 4. Reconfiguring Nation, Community and Belonging

O autorze

Avtar Brah, Annie Coombes