Mapping Multiculturalism

Part I Mapping multiculturalism From farce to tragedy: Reflections on the reification of race at century's end Jon Cruz ; Gender, class, and multiculturalism: Rethinking "race" politics Angela Y. Davis ; Academic apartheid: American Indian studies and multiculturalism M. Annette Jaimes Guerrero ; Like being mugged by a metaphor: Multiculturalism and state narratives Wahneema Lubiano ; Multiculturalism's unfinished business Christopher Newfield & Avery Gordon; Manichaeism and multiculturalism Cedric J. Robinson. Part II Rethinking the political subject Conjugating subjects: The heteroglossia of essence and resistance Norma Alarcon ; Injury, identity, politics Wendy Brown ; Multiculturalism as political strategy Cynthia Hamilton ; Racialization in the post-civil rights era Michael Omi ; Screening resistance Lourdes Portillo & Rosa Linda Fregoso. Part III Reading multicultural narratives Language and other lethal weapons: Cultural politics and the rites of children as translators of culture Antonia I. Castaneda ; The Spanish colon-ialista narrative: Their prospectus for us in 1992 Angie Chabram-Dernersesian ; Multiculturalism and racial stratification Neil Gotanda ; The erotic zone: Sexual transgression on the us -Mexican border Ramon Gutierrez ; Site-seeing through Asian America: On the making of fortune cookies Renee Tajima. Part IV Multi-capitalism Multiculturalism and flexibility: Some new directions in global capitalism Richard P. Appelbaum ; The class question in global capitalism: The case of the Los Angeles garment industry Edna Bonacich ; Travelogue: The garment industry in Los Angeles and East Asia Richard P. Appelbaum & Gregg Scott ; Unified capital and the subject of value Paul Smith ; Living on the edge: Everyday lives of poor Chicano/Mexicano families Patricia Zavella. Part V Multiculturalism and the production of culture Machine talk Steve Fagin ; "It's all wrong, but it's all right": Creative misunderstandings in intercultural communication George Lipsitz ; Imagining Los Angeles in the production of multiculturalism Lisa Lowe ; A style nobody can deal with: Politics, style, and the postindustrial city in hip hop Tricia Rose.