Front Cover -- critique influence change -- More Critical Praise for Debating Cultural Hybridity -- About the Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface to the critique influence change edition -- Preface to the First Edition -- Introduction -- 1: Introduction: The Dialectics of Cultural Hybridity -- The Power of Cultural Hybridity -- Intentional Hybridities -- Cyborg Politics -- The Politics of Hybridity: Cosmopolitans and Transnationals -- The Power to Name: Hybridity versus Essentialism -- Mimesis, Crossover and Creativity -- Conclusion: The Process of Hybridity -- Notes -- References -- Part One: Hybridity, Globalisation and the Practice of Cultural Complexity -- 2: From Complex Culture to Cultural Complexity -- Introduction -- Culture as a Complex Whole -- Criticism of the Complex Whole -- Prerequisites for a Modified Concept of Culture -- Culture as the Ability to take Meaningful Intersubjective Action -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 3: The Making and Unmaking of Strangers -- Disemdedding Into Setting Afloat -- Dimensions of the Present Uncertainty -- The Twisting Road to Shared Humanity -- References -- 4: Identity and Difference in a Globalised World -- Subjects of Action in a Planetary Society -- Becoming Individuals -- The Multiple Self and Responsibility -- Social Movements as Messages in a Globalized World -- References -- 5: Global Crises, the Struggle for Cultural Identity and Intellectual Porkbarrelling: Cosmopolitans versus Locals, Ethnics and Nationals in an Era of De-Hegemonisation -- Introduction -- Hybridisation and the Culture of Global Elite Formation -- The Logics of Identity and Identification -- Global Classes and the Ideology of Hybridity -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 6: 'The Enigma of Arrival': Hybridity and Authenticity in the Global Space -- References.

7: Adorno at Womad: South Asian Crossovers and the Limits of Hybridity-Talk -- Womad -- Popular Culture -- Hybridity-Talk -- Technology and Hybridity -- Musical Alliances -- Notes -- References -- Part Two: Essentialism versus Hybridity: Negotiating Difference -- 8: Is It So Difficult to be an Anti-Racist? -- What is Racism? -- Is Racism on the Increase? -- Universalism and Differentialism -- The Sources of Contemporary Racism and Affirmative Action -- Racism and Integration -- Notes -- References -- 9: 'Difference', Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism -- A New Racism? -- Anti-Racisms and Asian Identities -- The Complexities of Racism -- The Rise of Cultural Racism -- Indirect Discrimination -- A More Plural Anti-Racism -- References -- 10: Constructions of Whiteness in European and American Anti-Racism -- Introduction -- The Creation of a White 'Racial' Identity -- Anti-Racism and the Reification of Whiteness -- Challenges and Reaffirmations of Anti-Racist Orthodoxy within 'White Studies' -- Conclusions: Engaging Whiteness -- Notes -- References -- 11: Ethnicity, Gender Relations and Multiculturalism -- Racist Discourse, Ethnic Projects and Cultural Resources -- Woman and Culture -- Multiculturalism -- Feminism, Multiculturalism and Identity Politics -- Transversal Politics -- References -- 12: Dominant and Demotic Discourses of Culture: Their Relevance to Multi-Ethnic Alliances -- Introduction -- The Dominant Discourse -- The Demotic Discourse -- An Ethnographic Example: Negotiating an 'Asian Culture' -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- 13: Essentialising Essentialism, Essentialising Silence: Ambivalence and Multiplicity in the Constructions of Racism and Ethnicity -- Fear of Essentialism -- Public Arenas and the Self-Imagining of Community -- Agonistic Moral Panics: The Satanic Verses -- Racism and Ambivalence.

The Emergence of a Community of Suffering -- Moral Communities -- The Aesthetic Community -- Essentialising Silence -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Part Three: Mapping Hybridity -- 14: Tracing Hybridity in Theory -- Cultural Hybrids and National Reconciliations -- Hybridity in Colonialism -- The Semiotics of Hybridity -- Hybridity in Post-Colonial Theory -- Notes -- References -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index -- Back Cover.