Table of Contents

Part I: Conceptual Reflections Introduction: Un/Settled Multiculturalisms - Barnor Hesse Part II: Diaspora Formations 1.Beyond Westphalia: Nations and Diasporas - the case of the Muslim Umma -S. Sayyid 2. Reading Within A Diasporic Boundary: Transatlantic Black Performance And The Poetic Imperative - Brett St. Louis 3. Chinese Takeaways as Diasporic Habitus - David Parker 4. Diasporicity: Black Britain's Post-Colonial Formations - Barnor Hesse Part III: Cultural Entanglements 5. (Dis)Entangling the 'Asian Gang': Ethnicity, Identity, Masculinities - Claire Alexander 6. Ragga Music: Dis/respecting Black women and Dis/reputable Sexualities - Denise Noble 7. Colonial Entanglements - Roiyah Saltus-Blackwood 8. Some Kind of White, Some Kind of Black: Living the moments of Entanglement in South Africa and its academy - Zimitri Erasmus Part IV: Political Considerations Conclusion: The Multicultural Question - Stuart Hall

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This anthology reconsiders the social, political and intellectual meanings of multiculturalism in the West, particularly Britain.

Reviews

A provocative collection that unsettles precisely those issues too readily taken for granted, renewing the vigor of multicultural debates in genuinely original and productive ways.
*David Theo Goldberg, University of California Humanities Research Institute*