Styles for Flourishing - Histories of Survival in the Racial Niche

Drawing on years of cross-cultural ethnographic research, Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón develops an innovative theory to grasp racial experiences in their full sociocultural complexity, with vital implications for both social science and antiracist politics.

List of contents

Introduction
1. The Racial Niche: Origin Stories of Race and Theoretical Resolutions
2. Styles for Flourishing: Reconfiguring Selves Through the Racial Niche
3. Going to the Body as Mexican Boxers Do: Fashioning Styles from Racial Experiences
4. Bomba Styles: Surviving Anti-Blackness in the Racial Niche of Empires
5. The Origins of Racialized Citizens in the Illiberal State: Life Stories in the Spanish-Moroccan Borderland
6. Liberal Anti-racism and the Ends of Flourishing
Conclusion
Notes
Index

About the author

Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón is assistant professor of anthropology at Vanderbilt University. He is a coauthor of Genetic Ancestry: Our Stories, Our Pasts (2021).

Summary

Drawing on years of cross-cultural ethnographic research, Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón develops an innovative theory to grasp racial experiences in their full sociocultural complexity, with vital implications for both social science and antiracist politics.

Product details

• Authors: Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colon, Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.08.2024
• EAN: 9780231215305
• ISBN: 978-0-231-21530-5
• No. of pages: 304
• Subjects: Guides > Health; Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Social structure research; Social Science, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Family & health, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Social and cultural anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Social discrimination and social justice