Habits of Racism - A Phenomenology of Racism and Racialized Embodiment

The Habits of Racism argues that the conceptual reworking of habit as bodily orientation helps to identify the more subtle but fundamental workings of racism, exploring what the lived experience of racism and racialization teaches about the nature of the embodied and socially-situated being.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter One: Racist Habits: Bodily Gesture, Perception, and Orientation
Chapter Two: The Lived Experience of Racism and Racialized Embodiment
Chapter Three: Die Unheimlichkeit: The Racialized Body not-at-Home
Chapter Four: Racism's Gaze: Between Sartre's Being-Object and Merleau-Ponty's Intertwining
Conclusion

About the author

By Helen Ngo

Summary

The Habits of Racism argues that the conceptual reworking of habit as bodily orientation helps to identify the more subtle but fundamental workings of racism, exploring what the lived experience of racism and racialization teaches about the nature of the embodied and socially-situated being.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Ngo
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781498534666
• ISBN: 978-1-4985-3466-6
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Ethnic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Social, PHILOSOPHY / Political, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Existentialism, Social & political philosophy, social and political philosophy, Phenomenology & Existentialism, Phenomenology and Existentialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity