Postmodernism and race
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Postmodernism and race
Praeger, 1997
Available at 18 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection brings together a dozen academics from diverse racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives to explore race in a postmodern way. Postmodernism and Race articulates the differences between modern and postmodern discourses. It then offers a third alternative based on comparative civilizational studies, which suggest a multidimensional approach to power, identity, and social order. Also drawing on Western and non-Western interpretations, the discursive nature of race as a cultural product and semiotic marker is explored.
The collection seeks to achieve three tasks: To present a uniquely kynical approach to truth-saying presented by modernists and sophisticated so-called postmodernists (with their faith in lingualism); to explore what modernism is in the context of race; and to investigate the concept of race in an aperspectival way, including the language-gaming of racism. The obsession with racial measurement and its correlation with measures of intelligence is explored, as is the mythology of racial homogeneity in Japan. Also examined are the discursive nature of racial reality and power, and racial identity in Africa.
All those concerned with issues of race and/or postmodern civilization, as well as those interested in operational definition, scalar phenomena, relativism, and postmodern views of truth, justice, and power, will find this a provocative collection.
Table of Contents
The Spiders of Truth by Eric Mark Kramer
The Importance of Social Imagery for Race Relations by John W. Murphy
A Brief Archaeology of Intelligence by Eric Mark Kramer and Lonnie Johnson, Jr.
Dialogue and Race by Algis Mickunas
Symbolic Violence and Race by Karen A. Callaghan
What Is a "Japanese"? Culture, Diversity, and Social Harmony in Japan by Eric Mark Kramer and Richiko Ikeda
Community Control, Base Communities, and Democracy by Woo Sik Chung and John T. Pardeck
Racist Ontology, Inferiorization, and Assimilation by Jung Min Choi
Analyzing Racial Ideology: Post-1980 America by George Wilson and Jomills Braddock
Neoconservatism and Freedom in Postmodern North American Culture by Norman N. Morra
Selected Bibliography
Name Index
Subject Index
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