Varia: Post-Ethnic America? Postcolonial Interventions into American Culture Wars and Black American Studies Cover Image

Varia: Czy Ameryka może być post-etniczna? Czarny Atlantyk i interwencyjne dyskursy postkolonializmum a afroamerykańskie studia kulturowe
Varia: Post-Ethnic America? Postcolonial Interventions into American Culture Wars and Black American Studies

Author(s): Izabella Penier
Subject(s): Literary Texts
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego

Summary/Abstract: The article explores the impact that postcolonial studies had on the research imperatives and practices of Black American studies. I am going to argue that postcolonial, and in particular Black British cultural studies, have contributed significantly to internationalisation of Black Studies (and, by extension, of ethnic and American studies), reconfiguring the American concept of ethnicity and expanding the American discourse of multiculturalism. The article focuses particularly on the critical intervention that has come from the Caribbean-born British cultural studies theorists, first and foremost Paul Gilroy, the first critic to use the postcolonial frame of reference to black American texts.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 30
  • Page Range: 127-143
  • Page Count: 17