Debating Cultural Hybridity Multicultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism

Why is it still so difficult to negotiate differences across cultures? In what ways does racism continue to strike at the foundations of multiculturalism?

Bringing together some of the world's most influential postcolonial theorists, this classic collection examines the place and meaning of cultural hybridity in the context of growing global crisis, xenophobia and racism.

Starting from the reality that personal identities are multicultural identities, Debating Cultural Hybridity illuminates the complexity and the flexibility of culture and identity, defining their potential openness as well as their closures, to show why anti-racism and multiculturalism are today still such hard roads to travel.

Pnina Werbner is Professor Emerita in Social Anthropology at Keele University. She is an urban anthropologist who has studied Muslim South Asians in Britain and Pakistan and, more recently, the women's movement and the Manual Workers Union in Botswana.

Tariq Modood is Professor of Sociology, Politics and Public Policy at the University of Bristol, UK.

Preface
Introduction: The Dialectics Of Cultural Hybridity; Pnina Werbner

PART I: HYBRIDITY, GLOBALISATION AND THE PRACTICE OF CULTURAL COMPLEXITY
1. From Complex Culture To Cultural Complexity; Hans-Rudolf Wicker
2. The Making And Unmaking Of Strangers; Zygmunt Bauman
3. Identity And Difference In A Globalized World; Alberto Melucci
4. Global Crises, The Struggle For Cultural Identity And Intellectual Porkbarrelling; Jonathan Friedman
5. 'The Enigma Of Arrival': Hybridity And Authenticity In The Global Space; Peter Van Der Veer
6. Adorno At Womad: South Asian Crossovers And The Limits Of Hybridity-Talk; John Hutnyk
PART II: ESSENTIALISM VERSUS HYBRIDITY: NEGOTIATING DIFFERENCE
7. Is It So Diffcult To Be An Anti-Racist?; Michel Wieviorka
8. 'Difference', Cultural Racism And Anti-Racism; Tariq Modood
9. Constructions Of Whiteness In European And American Anti?Racism; Alastair Bonnett
10. Ethnicity, Gender Relations And Multiculturalism; Nira Yuval-Davis
13. Dominant And Demotic Discourses Of Culture: Their Relevance To Multi-Ethnic Alliances; Gerd Baumann
14. Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence And Multiplicity In The Constructions Of Racism And Ethnicity; Pnina Werbner
PART III: MAPPING HYBRIDITY
15. Tracing Hybridity In Theory; Nikos Papastergiadis
Notes On The Contributors