Race Critical Theories Text and Context

by Essed, Philomena; Goldberg, David Theo

• ISBN13: 9780631214380
• ISBN10: 0631214380
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• 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	x
Preface	xiii
Acknowledgments	xv
Introduction: From Racial Demarcations to Multiple Identifications	1	(14)
David Theo Goldberg
Philomena Essed
Part I Conceptual Mapping, in Chronological Order (ca. 1980-2000)
Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental	15	(23)
Edward Said
Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance	38	(31)
Stuart Hall
Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective	69	(11)
Angela Y. Davis
The Problems with Racism	80	(10)
Martin Barker
A Genealogy of Modern Racism	90	(23)
Cornel West
Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse	113	(10)
Homi Bhabha
Racial Formation	123	(23)
Michael Omi
Howard Winant
Preface to Dominance Without Hegemony: History and Power in Colonial India	146	(6)
Ranajit Guha
Defining Black Feminist Thought	152	(24)
Patricia Hill Collins
Everyday Racism: A New Approach to the Study of Racism	176	(19)
Philomena Essed
Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism	195	(25)
Chandra T. Mohanty
The Nation Form: History and Ideology	220	(11)
Etienne Balibar
Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-war Austria	231	(18)
Ruth Wodak
The End of Antiracism	249	(16)
Paul Gilroy
Black Matters	265	(18)
Toni Morrison
Modernity, Race, and Morality	283	(24)
David Theo Goldberg
Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism	307	(18)
Teun A. van Dijk
Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of ``White Ethnics'' in the United States	325	(19)
David Roediger
Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race	344	(11)
Manning Marable
A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People	355	(14)
Maria P. P. Root
Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth	369	(23)
Ann Laura Stoler
Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the ``Taken-for-Granted'' World	392	(21)
Maria R. Markus
Part II Reflections, in Thematic Order (1999-2000)
Histories and Values
Reflections on ``The Nation Form: History and Ideology'' (E. Balibar)	413	(4)
Etienne Balibar
Reflections on ``Racial Histories and Their Regimes of Truth'' (A. Stoler)	417	(5)
Ann Laura Stoler
Reflections on ``Modernity, Race, and Morality'' (D. T. Goldberg)	422	(4)
David Theo Goldberg
Reflections on ``Of Mimicry and Man: The Ambivalence of Colonial Discourse'' (H. Bhabha)	426	(7)
Kim Benita Furumoto
Knowledge and Representation
Reflections on ``A Genealogy of Modern Racism'' (C. West)	433	(4)
Howard McGary
Reflections on ``Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental'' (E. Said)	437	(4)
Saree Makdisi
Reflections on ``Black Matters'' (T. Morrison)	441	(4)
Suzette Spencer
Reflections on ``Defining Black Feminist Thought'' (P. H. Collins)	445	(4)
Patricia Hill Collins
Systems and Experiences
Reflections on ``Race, Articulation, and Societies Structured in Dominance'' (S. Hall)	449	(6)
Stuart Hall
Reflections on ``Racial Formation'' (M. Omi and H. Winant)	455	(5)
Michael Omi
Howard Winant
Reflections on ``Everyday Racism'' (Ph. Essed)	460	(4)
Philomena Essed
Reflections on ``Cultural Pluralism and the Subversion of the `Taken-for-Granted' World'' (M. Markus)	464	(7)
Maria R. Markus
Elites and Politics
Reflections on ``The Problems with Racism'' (M. Barker)	471	(10)
Martin Barker
Reflections on ``Denying Racism: Elite Discourse and Racism'' (T. A. van Dijk)	481	(5)
Teun A. van Dijk
Reflections on ``Turning the Tables: Antisemitic Discourse in Post-war Austria'' (R. Wodak)	486	(7)
Ruth Wodak
Reflections on ``Whiteness and Ethnicity in the History of `White Ethnics' in the United States'' (D. Roediger)	493	(3)
David Roediger
Reflections on ``Affirmative Action and the Politics of Race'' (M. Marable)	496	(7)
Johanna Fernandez
Dominance and Struggles
Reflections on the ``Preface'' to Dominance Without Hegemony (R. Guha)	503	(3)
Kelli M. Kobor
Reflections on ``Cartographies of Struggle: Third World Women and the Politics of Feminism'' (C. T. Mohanty)	506	(3)
Sue Kim
Reflections on ``The End of Antiracism'' (P. Gilroy)	509	(4)
Vikki Bell
Reflections on ``A Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People'' (M. P. P. Root)	513	(4)
Maria P. P. Root
Reflections on ``Education and Liberation: Black Women's Perspective'' (A. Y. Davis)	517	(3)
Angela Y. Davis
Index	520