Racist Culture - Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning

Informationen zum Autor David Theo Goldberg teaches in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: David Theo Goldberg, David Theo (University of California Goldberg, Dt Goldberg, Goldberg David Theo
• Publisher: Wiley, John and Sons Ltd
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 06.05.1993
• EAN: 9780631180784
• ISBN: 978-0-631-18078-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Ethnic Studies, Cultural Studies, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Social discrimination & inequality, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Physical anthropology, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism, Social discrimination and social justice, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General