{"id":3518,"date":"2009-11-28T02:15:43","date_gmt":"2009-11-28T02:15:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2013-02-09T01:25:35","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T01:25:35","slug":"the-creolization-reader-studies-in-mixed-identities-and-cultures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=3518","title":{"rendered":"The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Creolization Reader: Studies in Mixed Identities and Cultures<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Routledge<\/a>
\n2009-09-10
\n416 pages
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-415-49854-8
\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-415-49713-8<\/p>\n

Edited by<\/strong><\/p>\n

Robin Cohen<\/strong>, Professor of Development Studies and Director of the International Migration Institute
\nUniversity of Oxford<\/em><\/p>\n

Paola Toninato<\/strong>, Research Fellow in Sociology and Italian Studies
\nUniversity of Warwick<\/em><\/p>\n

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Increasingly, \u2018creolization\u2019 is used to analyse \u2018cultural complexity\u2019, ‘cosmopolitanism\u2019, \u2018hybridity\u2019, \u2018syncretism\u2019 and \u2018mixture\u2019, prominent and growing characteristics of the global age. The Creolization Reader <\/em>captures all these meanings. Attention to the \u2018creolizing world\u2019 has enormous potential as a suggestive way of describing our complex world and the diverse societies in which we all now live. The Creolization Reader<\/em> illuminates old creole societies and emerging cultures and identities in many parts of the world. Areas covered include Latin America, the Indian Ocean, the Caribbean, West, South and East Africa, the Pacific and the USA. Our authors provide an authoritative review, conspectus and critique of many aspects of creolization. This book is divided into five main sections covering the following key topics:<\/p>\n