Multiculturalism (2010-2011)
Mishra, V.ORCID: 0000-0002-0193-9736
(2013)
Multiculturalism (2010-2011).
The Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory, 21
(1).
pp. 1-22.
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Abstract
This chapter focuses on books published in the field of multiculturalism/multicultural studies primarily in 2010 and 2011. References to a few earlier works, and one published in 2012, are also made. The review acknowledges that multiculturalism as a term is gradually losing its power and significance and books are returning to specific ethnic, intercultural, unity-in-diversity and other related themes. Unsurprisingly not a single book written in or translated into English discussed in this critical survey carries the word multiculturalism in its title or subtitle, although a book not mentioned in earlier surveys but published in 2009—Fortier’s Multicultural Horizons—echoes that word. The survey begins with a book by France Winddance Twine on interracial connections in Britain. The use of ‘interracial’ and ‘multiracial’, hitherto anathema to most multicultural theorists, is symptomatic of either a sense of exhaustion about multiculturalism or a recognition that multiculturalism has to address very real questions about race which is a little different from theoretical reflections on ‘racism’.
Item Type: | Journal Article |
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Murdoch Affiliation(s): | School of Arts |
Publisher: | Oxford University Press |
Copyright: | © 2013 The English Association |
URI: | http://researchrepository.murdoch.edu.au/id/eprint/27045 |
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