Culture Equity and Modernity:Anthropological Perspective of the African-American Cultural Image Controversy in New Orleans
Since the late 20th century,special cultures have encountered a dual pursuit of development and equity in the process of entering the public domain as well as intricate tensions generated accordingly.As special cultural groups strive to expand their boundaries to obtain better development conditions,they also reconstruct and conflict with modern rules.In a society with complex ethnic issues and developed judicial and market system,such as the United States,this dual pursuit and tension presents a complex orientation.By analyzing the different development of African-American cultural image disputes in American society,politics and judicial fields,this paper explores the dispute resolution mechanism,conditions and restrictions of American society on the issues of culture and modernity.New Orleans African culture image controversy shows that in a society with membership being increasingly complex,cultural community boundary facing reconstruction,no single aspect from"law""morality""contract",and"administrative regulation"can constitute the final way to solve social anomie,the final way out is instead,to establish universally binding,inclusive and motivating social norms based on the consensus among different subjects.