ISBN:
0415750547
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0415750555
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9780415780544
,
9780415780551
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9781282586642
,
9781136978227
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (122 p)
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Postcolonial politics
Series Statement:
Postcolonial Politics Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Everyday Practice of Race in America : Ambiguous Privilege
DDC:
305.800973
Keywords:
Postcolonialism
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Public opinion
;
Racism Public opinion
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Racism History
;
Racism Philosophy
;
Race discrimination
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Racism - United States - Philosophy
;
Electronic books
;
United States Race relations
;
United States Politics and government
Abstract:
An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives. The discussion ranges over a wide theoretical landscape, bringing to bear the insights of Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, Cornel West and others to the dilemmas represented by the continuing social practice of race. The book lays the theoretica
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Representation: Class ambiguity and racial subjectivity; Chapter 2 The everyday and ordinary: Developing a theory of race; Chapter 3 Cody's, Foucault, and race; Chapter 4 Working together: Conditional subjectivity; Chapter 5 Walking the streets; Chapter 6 Passing and mixing: Challenging the racial subject; Bibliography; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [115]-119) and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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