The Indigene and the Epistemological Crisis
The Black Atlantic and the Aporias of the Universal
Antinomies of the Enlightenment
White Voices against Imperial Reason
From Black Orpheus to Barack Obama
Between Anglo-Saxonism and Latinism
3 The Seismic Shift and the Decolonization of Knowledge
The Radicalization of the Disciplines
Multiculturalism and the Decolonizing Corpus
Situating Postcolonial Studies
4 Identity Politics and the Right/Left Convergence
Žižek and the Universal Imaginary
The Ghosting of the Particular
5 France, the United States, and the Culture Wars
Minorities and the Specter of Identitarianism
The Anxieties behind an Antagonism
Hip-Hop and the Racialization of the Everyday
Allegorical Crossings: Blacks, Jews, Muslims
“From Mao to Moses”: Neocons and the Nouveaux Philosophes
6 Brazil, the United States, and the Culture Wars
“Racial Democracy” and Black Consciousness
The Uses and Abuses of Comparison
Desire, Denial, and Linked Analogies
Popular Culture, Tropicália, and the Rainbow Atlantic
Scholarship and the Persistence of Race
7 From Affirmative Action to Interrogating Whiteness
Remedial Measures and the Legacy of Affirmative Whiteness
The Advent of Whiteness Studies
Debating Whiteness, Blackness, and Mestiçagem
The Critique of Normative Frenchness
8 French Intellectuals and the Postcolonial
The Hesitation-Waltz of French Postcolonial Studies
Genres of Postcolonial Écriture
9 The Transnational Traffic of Ideas
France, the United States, and Brazil Studies
French Theory In and Out of Place
Cultural Studies and Critical Utopias