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Hybridity and its Discontents Politics, Science, Culture
320 Pages
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Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
320 Pages
by
Routledge
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Hybridity and its Discontents 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... Read more
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
Biography
Avtar Brah, Annie Coombes
'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
