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Cultural politics : class, gender, race, and the postmodern world

Title
Cultural politics : class, gender, race, and the postmodern world / Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon.
Author
Jordan, Glenn.
Publication
Oxford, UK ; Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1995.

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Additional Authors
Weedon, Chris.
Description
xv, 624 pages : illustrations, map; 26 cm
Summary
What are the key issues in cultural politics today? How might we understand contemporary cultural politics in ways that empower people to comprehend and change their social position? This book examines these questions, focusing on the dominant issues of class, gender and race.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • Arts and society > History > 20th century
  • Minorities in art
  • Ethnic arts
  • Marginality, Social > History > 20th century
  • Ethnic arts
  • Arts and society
  • Marginality, Social
  • Minorities in art
  • Kulturpolitik
  • Nationale Minderheit
  • Kunst
  • Minderheit
  • Cultuurbeleid
  • Sociale klassen
  • Sekseverschillen
  • Rassenongelijkheid
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [583]-602) and indexes.
Contents
  • Liberals and Humanists, Cosmopolitans and Eurocentrics: on the development of cultural policy in Britain -- Writing as a weapon in class struggle: radical cultural politics in Britain to the Second World War -- Marxist cultural politics in Eastern Europe: the case of the German Democratic Republic -- Whose history is it? class, cultural democracy and constructions of the past -- Feminism and the cultural politics of gender -- Alternative subjectivities: White feminist fiction -- Gender, racism and identity: Black feminist fiction.
  • Marking difference, asserting power: the cultural politics of racism -- Primitives, politics and the avant-grade: modern art and its others -- Dialogues: race and the cultural politics of the avant-garde -- Encounters: postcolonial artists and the art establishment -- From Primitivism to ethnic art: Neo-Colonialism in the metropolis? -- Racism, culture and subjectivity: Australian Aboriginal writing -- The postmodernist challenge/challenging postmodernism: a cultural politics for today.
ISBN
  • 0631162275
  • 9780631162278
  • 0631162283
  • 9780631162285
LCCN
94004311
OCLC
  • ocm29877335
  • 29877335
  • SCSB-9121499
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library