Re-situating identities : the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture
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Re-situating identities : the politics of race, ethnicity, and culture
University of Toronto Press, c2010
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
Re-Situating Identities signals a crucial move away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation which have marked race and ethnic studies. Instead, inspired by an insistence on concrete social and political change, these essays seek to re-energize the field by systematic and empirically grounded investigation of the production of identities in power relationships. Working with ethnographic data, life histories, and historical documents, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists from Britain, Canada, and the United States present a diverse array of scenarios from courtrooms and classrooms to diasporas, communities, state memorials, and media representations. Each scenario raises an array of critical questions of existing theory and policy: What is the impact of multiculturalist policies? Should the term "race" still be used? What are the controversies surrounding the concept of "black cultures"? What part do race and ethnicity play in the construction of collective memories? What part do notions of home play in the organization of racial exclusion? What can we learn about racism from life stories? How is nationalism mediated by the local experiences it attempts to supersede? And what does the local mean and what is its relationship to globalization?
Table of Contents
Introduction: Against Parochialism and Fragmentation
Part I: Race and Racism
Introduction
Robert Miles, Rudy Torres: Does "Race" Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after "Race Relations"
Caroline Knowles: Racism, Biography, and Psychiatry
Phil Cohen: Homing Devices
Part II: The Politics of Identity
Introduction
Vered Amit-Talai: The Minority Circuit: Identity Politics and the Professionalization of Ethnic Activism
Val Morrison: Mediating Identity: Kashtin, the Media, and the Oka Crisis
Anthony Synnott/David Howes: Canada's Visible Minorities: Identity and Representation
Alrick Cambridge: The Beauty of Valuing Black Cultures
Part III: Memories and Histories
Henri Lustiger-Thaler: Remembering Forgetfully
Tracy E. K'Meyer: Shared Memory in Community: Oral History, Community, and Race
Robert Paine: Dilemmas of Discovery: Europeans and "America"
Part IV: Nationalism and Transnationalism
Anthony P. Cohen: Owning the Nation and the Personal Nature of Nationalism: Locality and the Rhetoric of Nationhood in Scotland
Parminder Bhachu: The Multiple Landscapes of Transnational Asian Women in the Diaspora
Index
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