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The Race to Modernity

Marlon Simmons-2011-01-01-SensePublishers eBooks
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In the much popularized postmodern context, race has often been framed as complex, sophisticated, and shifting, making way for the discursive ground of culture, ethnicity, and Diaspora. Needless to say, within the present globalized transnational epoch, one is faced with different questions concerning Diasporic identity (Hall, 2005, 2007a, 2007b). Yet race, culture, ethnicity, identity are not distinct moments, rather they come to be discursively constituted, working in some protean way to form these different transnational identities. What I am interested in, is the experience of the Diasporic body concerning these contemporary questions of identity, as they come to be historically shaped through the social conjunctures of the many cultural formations of modernity.

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In the much popularized postmodern context, race has often been framed as complex, sophisticated, and shifting, making way for the discursive ground of culture, ethnicity, and Diaspora. Needless to say, within the present globalized transnational epoch, one is faced with different questions concerning Diasporic identity (Hall, 2005, 2007a, 2007b). Yet race, culture, ethnicity, identity are not distinct moments, rather they come to be discursively constituted, working in some protean way to form these different transnational identities. What I am interested in, is the experience of the Diasporic body concerning these contemporary questions of identity, as they come to be historically shaped through the social conjunctures of the many cultural formations of modernity.

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ModernityGender studiesDiasporaPostmodernismIdentity (music)SociologyEthnic groupRace (biology)

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