Jordan, Glenn.

Cultural politics : class, gender, race and the postmodern world / Glenn Jordan and Chris Weedon. - Oxford : Blackwell, 1995. - xv, 624 p. : ill., map, port. ; 25 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

List of plates - Preface - Acknowledgements -- Part I: Mapping the terrain - 1. Introduction: what are cultural politics? - 2. Liberals and humanists, cosmopolitans and eurocentrics: on the development of cultural policy in Britain -- Part II: The cultural politics of class : 3. Writing as a weapon in class struggle: radical cultural politics in Britain to the second world war - 4. Marxist cultural politics in Eastern Europe: the case of the German Democratic Republic - 5. Whose history is it? : class, cultural democracy and constructions of the past -- Part III: The Cultural Politics of Gender: 6. Feminism and the cultural politics of gender - 7. Alternative subjectivities: white feminist fiction - 8. Gender, racism and identity: black feminist fiction -- Part IV: The cultural politics of race: 9. Marking difference, asserting power: the cultural politics of racism - 10. Primitives, politics and the Avant-garde: modern art and its others - 11. Dialogues: race and the cultural politics of the Avant-garde - 12. Encounters: postcolonial artists and the art establishment - 13. From primitivism to ethnic art: neo-colonialism in the metropolis? - 14. Racism, culture and subjectivity: Australian aboriginal writing -- Part V: Concluding reflections - 15. The postmodernist challenge / challenging postmodernism: a cultural politics for today - Notes - Bibliography - Index of names and voices - Subject index.

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Arts and society--History--20th century.
Minorities in art.
Ethnic arts.
Marginality, Social--History--20th century.

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