Selected by "Choice" magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
for 2011Between 1990 and 1996, the U.S. Congress passed
market-based reforms in the areas of civil rights, welfare, and
immigration in a series of major legislative initiatives. These
were announced as curbs on excessive rights and as correctives to a
culture of dependency among the urban poor--stock images of racial
and cultural minorities that circulated well beyond Congress. But
those images did not circulate unchallenged, even after
congressional opposition failed. In "The Paradox of Relevance,"
Carol J. Greenhouse provides a political and literary history of
the anthropology of U.S. cities in the 1990s, where--below the
radar--New Deal liberalism, with its iconic bond between society
and security, continued to thrive."The Paradox of Relevance" opens
in the midst of anthropology's so-called postmodern crisis and the
appeal to relevance as a basis for reconciliation and renewal. The
search for relevance leads outward to the major federal legislation
of the 1990s and the galvanic political tensions between rights-
and market-based reforms. Anthropologists' efforts to inform those
debates through "relevant" ethnography were highly patterned,
revealing the imprint of political tensions in shaping their works'
central questions and themes, as well as their organization,
narrative techniques, and descriptive practices. In that sense,
federal discourse dominates the works' demonstrations of
ethnography's relevance; however, the authors simultaneously resist
that dominance through innovations in their own literariness--in
particular, drawing on diasporic fiction and sociolegal studies
where these articulate more agentive meanings of identity and
difference. The paradox of relevance emerges with the realization
that in the context of the times, affirming the relevance of
ethnography as value-neutral science required the textual practices
of advocacy and art.
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