Situating "Race" And Racisms In Time, Space, and Theory: Critical Essays For Activists And Scholars

by Lee, Jo-Anne; Lutz, John S.

• ISBN13: 9780773528871
• ISBN10: 0773528873
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-06-01
• Publisher: McGill Queens Univ Pr

Summary

Grounded in real life and theoretically charged, the nine essays in this interdisciplinary collection explore how "race," racisms, and racialization are changing and suggest strategies for reading their emerging forms and discourses. "Race" has historically been defined by visible difference, but the slippery nature and malleability of racisms and racialising processes challenge scholars and activists to remain vigilant, responsive, and critical in their analyses and actions.This collection explores the strengths and weaknesses of postmodern social theory in the struggle against racism. Recognizing diversity as a conduit for resilience, endurance, and strength, the editors have tried to encourage coalition building by bringing together historians, sociologists, cultural theorists, and literary scholars in "dialogue" with artists and activists. Topics considered include nation formation, racialized states, cultural racism, multiculturalism, hyphenated and mixed-race identities, media and representation, and shifting identities.Contributors include Jeannette Armstrong, director of the En'owkin International School of Writing in Penticton, Canada; Frances Henry, professor emirita at York University; Yasmin Jiwani, assistant professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Concordia University; Paul Maylam, chair of the Department of History at Rhodes University, South Africa; Minelle Mahtani, assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Planning, and the Program in Journalism, University of Toronto; Roy Miki, professor of contemporary literature in the English Department at Simon Fraser University; Roxana Ng, professor in the Department of Adult Education, Community Development and Counselling Psychology at the Ontario Institute of Secondary Education/University of Toronto; Ali Rattansi, retired professor of sociology at City University London; Ann Stoler, distinguished professor and chair, Department of Anthropology, New School University in New York; and Carol Tator, course coordinator in the Department of Anthropology, York University.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	vii
Preface	ix
Introduction: Toward a Critical Literacy of Racisms, Anti-Racisms, and Racialization	3	(27)
JO-ANNE LEE AND JOHN LUTZ
Deconstructing Race, Deconstructing Racism (with Postscript 2004)	30	(16)
A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JEANNETTE ARMSTRONG AND ROXANA NG
On Being and not Being Brown/Black-British: Racism, Class, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Post-Imperial Britain (with Postscript 2004: The Politics of Longing and (Un)Belonging, Fear, and Loathing)	46	(31)
ALI RATTANSI
Mixed Metaphors: Positioning "Mixed Race" Identity	77	(17)
MINELLE MAHTANI
Turning In, Turning Out: The Shifting Formations of "Japanese Canadian" from Uprooting to Redress	94	(20)
ROY MIKI
Racist Visions for the Twenty-First Century: On the Banal Force of the French Radical Right	114	(24)
ANN LAURA STOLER
Unravelling South Africa's Racial Order: The Historiography of Racism, Segregation, and Apartheid	138	(23)
PAUL MAYLAM
A Critical Discourse Analysis of the Globe and Mail Editorials on Employment Equity	161	(17)
FRANCES HENRY AND CAROL TATOR
Orientalizing "War Talk": Representations of the Gendered Muslim Body Post-9/11 in The Montreal Gazette	178	(27)
YASMIN JIWANI
Contributors	205	(4)
Index	209