Race Critical Theories Text and Context

by Essed, Philomena; Goldberg, David Theo

• ISBN13: 9780631214373
• ISBN10: 0631214372
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2001-08-22
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Race Critical Theories brings together many of the key contributors to critical theorizing about race and racism over the past twenty years. Each previously published text is accompanied by a fresh statement - in most cases written by the authors themselves - regarding the political context, implications and effects of the original contribution.

Author Biography

Philomena Essed is Senior Researcher at the University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Research Institute for Global Issues and Development Studies, and Visiting Professor at the University of California, Irvine. She is the author of Everyday Racism (1990), Understanding Everyday Racism (1991), and Diversity: Gender, Color and Culture (1996).

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Professor of African American Studies and Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (1993); Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America (1997); and Ethical Theory and Social Issues (second edition, 1995). He co-edits Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors

Acknowledgments

Introduction: From Racial Demarcations to Multiple Identifications

Conceptual Mapping, in Chronological Order (c. 1980-2000)

Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental

Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance

Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspectives

A New Approach to the Study of Racism

The Genealogy of Western Racism

Of Mimicry and Man

The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse

Racial Formation: Michael Omi & Howard Winant

Preface to Dominance Without Hegemony

History and Power in Colonial India

Defining Black Feminist Thought: Patricia Hill Collins

Everyday Racism: A New Approach to the Study of Racism

Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism

The Nation Form:History and Ideology

Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria

The end of Antiracism

Black Matters

Modernity, Race and Morality

Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism

Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States

Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race

A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People

Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth

Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World

Reflections, in Thematic Order (1999-2000)

Histories and Values

Reflections on 'The Nation Form: History and Ideology'

Reflections on 'Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth'

Reflections on 'Modernity, Race and Morality'

Reflections 'Of Mimicry and Man

The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse'

Knowledge and Representation

Reflections on 'The Genealogy of Western Racism'

Reflections on 'Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental'

Reflections on 'Black Matters'

Reflections on 'Defining Black Feminist Thought'

Systems and Experiences

Reflections on 'Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance'

Reflections on 'Racial Formation'

Reflections on 'Everyday Racism'

Reflections on 'Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the 'Taken-for-Granted' World'

Elites and Politics

Reflections on 'The New Racism'

Reflections on 'Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism'

Reflections on 'Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-War Austria'

Reflections on 'Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of 'White Ethnics' in the United States'

Reflections on 'Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race'

Dominance and Struggles

Reflections on the 'Perface' to 'Dominance Without Hegemony'

Reflections on 'Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism'

Reflections on 'The End of Antiracism'

Reflections on 'A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People'

Reflections on 'Education and Liberation: Black women's Perspectives'

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