A deliberately hybrid text, the fruit of a partnership over many years between a poet/ethnographer and a painter who have mutually enriched each other's understanding of the meaning of place, 'Graphologies' takes a line of thought for a walk across poetry and the visual arts, autobiography and fiction, cultural and literary studies, exploring the emotional and narrative hinterlands of the commonplace.
A deliberately hybrid text, the fruit of a partnership over many years between a poet/ethnographer and a painter who have mutually enriched each other...
Questioning received notions of multiculturalism, this book develops a wide ranging critique of essentialist definitions of race, nation and ethnicity across key areas of cultural policy and practice. Starting from the ‘new ethnicities‘ thesis of Stuart Hall - who writes a foreword to the book - the contributors explore changing ethnicities within the old frameworks of racism.
Linking theoretical analysis with substantive issues, the book focuses on three major concerns:
·new ways of tackling popular cultures of racism
·the histories of previously marginalized racisms - and...
Questioning received notions of multiculturalism, this book develops a wide ranging critique of essentialist definitions of race, nation and ethnicity...
