Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities - A Racial-Caste-In-Class

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Theorizing about Black Practical Consciousness in the United States and United Kingdom 2. Industrial Modernity, Du Boisian Double Consciousness; Post-Industrialism, Postmodernity/Post-Structuralism and Intersectionality 3. Phenomenological Structuralism 4. A Phenomenological Structural Constitution of Modern Society: "The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism" 5. Subject Constitution Within the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism of Industrial and Postindustrial Capitalism 6. The Constitution of Black America Within the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 7. The Constitution of Black British Life Within the Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism 8. The African-Americanization of the Black Diaspora in Globalization or the Contemporary Capitalist World-System 9. Conclusions

About the author

Paul Camy Mocombe is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University.

Carol Tomlin is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.

Cecile Wright is Professor of Sociology, Honorary academic, University of Nottingham.

Summary

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction.

Product details

• Authors: Paul Camy Tomlin Mocombe
• Assisted by: Paul Camy Mocombe (Editor), Mocombe Paul Camy (Editor), Carol Tomlin (Editor), Tomlin Carol (Editor), Cecile Wright (Editor), Wright Cecile (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.06.2020
• EAN: 9780367601089
• ISBN: 978-0-367-60108-9
• No. of pages: 264
• Series: Routledge Research in Race and Ethnicity
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; Ethnic Studies, Sociology, Social Theory, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / Social Theory, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, Social classes, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes & Economic Disparity, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Cultural & Ethnic Studies / General, Ethnic studies / Ethnicity