Avtar Brah > Quotes

“In broad terms, culture may be viewed as the symbolic construction of the vast array of a social group's life experiences. Culture is the embodiment, the chronicle of a group's history”
― Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities

“There are those who would find my call for the study of intersectionality as 'old hat', the recitation of a 'mantra'. I would remind them that mantras are designed for repetition precisely because each repetitive act is expected to construct new meanings.”
― Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities

“The problem tended to be couched primarily in terms of 'helping the immigrant to adjust to the host society', despite the fact that sections of the 'host society' were acting in rather an un-host-like fashion towards the new arrivals”
― Avtar Brah, Cartographies of Diaspora: Contesting Identities