ISBN:
0761850643
,
9780761850649
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (viii, 506 p)
,
ill
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2013 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Color Struck : Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective
DDC:
305.8
Keywords:
Ethnicity
;
Race
;
Race
;
Electronic books
Abstract:
This book is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and is divided into three sections, beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world
Description / Table of Contents:
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part 1. The First Complex Societies to Modern Times; 1. Race, Science, and Human Origins in Africa; 2. Race and the Rise of the Swahili Culture; 3. 'Caste' -[ing] Gender: Caste and Patriarchy in Ancient Hindu Jurisprudence; 4. Comparative Race and Slavery in Islam, Judaism and Christianity: Texts, Practices, and Current Implications; 5. The Dark Craven Jew: Race and Religion in Medieval Europe; 6. Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Racial Slavery in the New World
Description / Table of Contents:
7. The Yellow Lady: Mulatto Women in the Suriname PlantocracyPart 2. Race and Mixed Race in the Americas; 8. Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Approaches to Resistance and Social Justice; 9. Militant Multiraciality: Rejecting Race and Rejecting the Conveniences of Complicity; l0. Whiteness Reconstructed: Multiracial Identity as a Category of ""New White""; 11. Conversations in Black and White: The Limitations of Binary Thinking about Race in America; 12. The Necessity of a Multiracial Category in a Race-Conscious Society
Description / Table of Contents:
13. Mixed Race Terminologies in the Americas: Globalizing the Creole in the Twenty First Century14. Examining the Regional and Multigenerational Context of Creole and American Indian Identity; 15. Race, Class, and Power: The Politics of Multiraciality in Brazil; 16. All Mixed up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global Perspective; Part 3. Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Contemporary Societies; 17. Black No More: African Americans and the 'New' Race Science; 18. Contesting Identities of Color: African Female Immigrants in the Americas
Description / Table of Contents:
19. Burdened Intersections: Black Women and Race, Gender, and Class20. Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Communal Violence within the Matrix of the Colonial Legacy, Globalization, and Global Stability; 21. Ethnic Identity in China: The Politics of Cultural Difference; 22. Shangri-la has Forsaken Us: China's Ethnic Minorities, Identity, and Government Repression; 23. The Russian/Chechen Conflict and its Consequences; Contributors; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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