Racist culture : philosophy and the politics of meaning
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Racist culture : philosophy and the politics of meaning
Blackwell, 1993
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Bibliography: p. [273]-297
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
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: hard ISBN 9780631180777
Description
"Racist Culture" is a synthesis of recent work on racism. It offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that racisms are often not aberrant or irrational, but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: the "West", "the underclass", "the primitive". This normalization of racisms as reflected in the West mirrors South Africa in its use and conception of space. The book concludes with an extended argument for a pragmatic, anti-racist practice. It should be of interest to students on courses in cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and literature.
Table of Contents
- Introduction - racial subjects
- modernity, race and morality
- racialized discourse
- the masks of race
- racist exclusions
- racisms and rationalities
- racial knowledge
- polluting the body politics - race and urban location
- taking race pragmatically.
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: pbk ISBN 9780631180784
Description
Racist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that rascisms are often not aberrant or irrational but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: "the West"; "the underclass"; and "the primitive". This normalization of racism reflected in the West mirrors South Africa an its use and conception of space. Goldberg concludes with an extended argument for a pragmatic, antiracist practice.
Table of Contents
Preface. 1. Introduction: Racial Subjects.
2. Modernity, Race and Morality.
3. Racialized Discourse.
4. The Masks of Race.
5. Racist Exclusions.
6. Racisms and Rationalities.
7. Racial Knowledge.
8. Polluting the Body Politic: Race and Urban Location.
9. Taking Race Pragmatically.
Notes.
Bibliography.
Index.
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