ISBN:
0231504489
,
9780231504485
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online Ressource (x, 237 p.)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg.
Paralleltitel:
Print version Protestant ethnic and the spirit of capitalism
DDC:
305.8
Schlagwort(e):
Ethnicity Political aspects
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United States
;
Ethnicity Religious aspects
;
Protestant churches
;
Capitalism United States
;
Postcolonialism United States
;
Cross-cultural orientation United States
;
Ethnicité Aspect politique
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États-Unis
;
Ethnicité Aspect religieux
;
Églises protestantes
;
Capitalisme États-Unis
;
Postcolonialisme États-Unis
;
Formation transculturelle États-Unis
;
Postcolonialism
;
Cross-cultural orientation
;
Capitalism
;
Ethnicity Political aspects
;
Ethnicity Religious aspects
;
Protestant churches
;
Ethnicity Political aspects
;
Ethnicity Religious aspects
;
Protestant churches
;
Capitalism
;
Postcolonialism
;
Cross-cultural orientation
;
Etnicidad Aspectos religiosos
;
Iglesias protestantes
;
Capitalismo Estados Unidos
;
Postcolonialismo Estados Unidos
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Anthropology ; Cultural
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Discrimination & Race Relations
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Minority Studies
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Sociology of Religion
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Ethnicity ; Religious aspects ; Protestant churches
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Capitalism
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Cross-cultural orientation
;
Ethnic relations
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Ethnicity ; Political aspects
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Postcolonialism
;
Etnische identiteit
;
Kapitalisme
;
Bellettrie
;
Cultuur
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
États-Unis Relations interethniques
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States Ethnic relations
;
United States
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
In late-capitalist Western society, cross-ethnic cultural transactions are an inevitable daily routine. Yet, according to acclaimed cultural critic Rey Chow, the notion of ethnicity as it is currently used is theoretically ambivalent, confusing, indeed self-contradictory, straddling as it does an uneasy boundary between a universalist rhetoric of inclusion on the one hand, and actual, lived experiences of violence and intolerance on the other. To drastically reconceptualize ethnicity in the contemporary world, Chow proposes that it be examined in conjunction with Max Weber's famous theor
Kurzfassung:
Preface; INTRODUCTION From Biopower to Ethnic Difference; 1. The Protestant Ethnic and the Spirit of Capitalism; 2. Brushes with the-Other-as-Face: Stereotyping and Cross-Ethnic Representation; 3. Keeping Them in Their Place: Coercive Mimeticism and Cross-Ethnic Representation; 4. The Secrets of Ethnic Abjection; 5. When Whiteness Feminizes ... : Some Consequences of a Supplementary Logic; Notes; Index.
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index. - Description based on print version record
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