Publisher's Synopsis
"Racial Formations/Critical Transformations" is a wide-ranging interdisciplinary work addressed not only to students and academics in ethnic studies but also to policy-makers and community activists. E. San Juan Jr, a leading Filipino writer, critic and scholar whose work on comparative cultural studies is well-known, offers a global critique of multiculturalism, ethnicity-based social studies, orthodox Marxism and postmodern approaches from the perspective of the struggles of people of colour.;San Juan deploys the resources of critical theory, structural analysis, semiotics, and historical materialism to theorise the centrality of race and racism in US discourse and practice, and to show how race articulates with power, ethnicity, nation, gender and class across modes of intellectual production and social formations. Criticising the power/knowledge apparatus of the traditional disciplines, he proposes the histories of people of colour as the foundation for a new field of cultural study that would synthesise research into US racial discourse and practice with counter-hegemonic movements of liberation throughout the world.
