Plausible prejudice : everyday experiences and social images of nation, culture and race
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Plausible prejudice : everyday experiences and social images of nation, culture and race
Universitetsforlaget, c2006
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Bibliography: p. [350]-375
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In contrast to most studies of minority, majority relations, the author does not focus on minority groups but on the conventional wisdom of the politically dominant majority population. The essays cover a range of themes, from individualised identification and the struggle to achieve a 'sustainable self-image' to national belonging and 'race thinking'. She argues that social actors construct racial and national boundaries by drawing on everyday-life experiences. This is how racial prejudice can become 'plausible prejudice?'.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: the Social Production of Conventional Wisdom
- Individualisation: From Obedience to Negotiation in Families and Workplaces
- Everyday Practices and Social Imaginaries: Home, Local Community and Nation
- Boundaries of Belonging: Children's Everyday Lives and National Identification
- Mainstream and Alternative Models of Family Life
- Invisible Fences: reinventing Sameness and Difference
- A Public Dispute About a Racial Term
- Anthropologists Debating 'Culture' and 'Race'
- Tales of Decent and Consent: Young People Struggling for a Sustainable Self-image
- Imagined Kinship and the Rearticulation of Political Ethnonationalism
- The Dignity of the Scholar
- Decolonising Anthropological Knowledge
- Bibliography.
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