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Index
Cover Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
1 The Atlantic Enlightenment
The Red Atlantic
The Indigene and the Epistemological Crisis
The Black Atlantic and the Aporias of the Universal
Antinomies of the Enlightenment
White Voices against Imperial Reason
2 A Tale of Three Republics
Franco-Brazilian Liaisons
Brazilo-American Encontros
Diasporic Longings
From Black Orpheus to Barack Obama
Between Anglo-Saxonism and Latinism
Racing Translation
3 The Seismic Shift and the Decolonization of Knowledge
The Protocols of Eurocentrism
The Postwar Rupture
The Radicalization of the Disciplines
Multiculturalism and the Decolonizing Corpus
Situating Postcolonial Studies
4 Identity Politics and the Right/Left Convergence
The Politics of Scapegoating
Troubling Diversity
The Bourdieu/Wacquant Polemic
An “American” Discourse?
Žižek and the Universal Imaginary
The Ghosting of the Particular
5 France, the United States, and the Culture Wars
Sobbing for the White Man
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
France’s Multicultural Turn
6 Brazil, the United States, and the Culture Wars
“Racial Democracy” and Black Consciousness
The Anatomy of Skepticism
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 Quotas Debate in Brazil
The American Foil
The Advent of Whiteness Studies
Debating Whiteness, Blackness, and Mestiçagem
The Critique of Normative Frenchness
8 French Intellectuals and the Postcolonial
Ironies of an Aversion
Decolonizing la République
The Hesitation-Waltz of French Postcolonial Studies
The Quarrel over Genealogy
Genres of Postcolonial Écriture
9 The Transnational Traffic of Ideas
France, the United States, and Brazil Studies
French Theory In and Out of Place
Allegories of Intrusion
Cultural Studies and Critical Utopias
Triangular Readings
Theorizing Cross-Border Interlocution
Translational Relationalities
Notes
Index
About the Authors
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