ABSTRACT
Hutnyk, John, “Adorno at Womad: South Asian Crossovers
and the Limits of Hybridity-Talk” in Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism, edited by Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood, London: Zed, 1997
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Werbner, Pnina, “Introduction: The Dialectics of Cultural Hybridity” in Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism, edited by Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood, London: Zed, 1997
Wieviorka, Michel, “Is It so Difficult to Be an Anti-Racist?” in Debating Cultural Hybridity: Multi-Cultural Identities and the Politics of Anti-Racism, edited by Pnina Werbner and Tariq Modood, London: Zed, 1997
Highlighting the commitment of postmodern scholars to draw on a diversity of texts, HUTNYK cites a song from the Asian Dub Foundation that reinforces much of the criticism about multiculturalism: that it creates as much as destroys difference based on race or ethnicity:
An Asian background/ That’s what’s reflected/ But this militant vibe/ Ain’t what you expected/ With your liberal minds/ You patronise our culture/ Scanning the surface like vultures/ With your tourist mentality/ We’re still the natives/ You’re multicultural/ But we’re anti-racist.
