ABSTRACT
Multiculturalism and the critique of Eurocentrism are inseparable concepts; each becomes impoverished without the other. While the critique of Eurocentrism without multiculturalism runs the risk of simply inverting existing hierarchies rather than profoundly rethinking and unsettling them. Central to multiculturalism is the notion of mutual and reciprocal relativization, the idea that the diverse cultures placed in play should come to perceive the limitations of their own social and cultural perspective. At the same time, political culture has to take into account the phenomena summed up in the term 'postmodernism', which implies the global ubiquity of market culture, a new stage of capitalism in which culture and information become key terrains for struggle. A video performance by the Chicano group Culture Clash satirically stages the contradictory dynamics of the postmodern moment. It shows a radical Chicano and his Puerto Rican friend using Santeria to raise Che Guevara from the dead in order to solicit his political guidance.
