Format:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Edition:
Also issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021
ISBN:
9781350246324
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1350246328
Content:
Preface -- Introduction: Contingency -- 1. Critique -- 2. Individuation -- 3. Discourse -- 4. Domination -- 5. Ideology -- 6. Recrement -- 7. Case Study: Racist Ideology in the US Coda -- Bibliography -- Index.
Content:
"Drawing on poststructuralist approaches, Craig Martin outlines a theory of discourse, ideology, and domination that can be used by scholars and students to understand these central elements in the study of culture, whether religion, gender, race, or other critical categories for analysis. The book shows how discourses are used to construct social institutions often classist, sexist, or racist and that those social institutions always entail a distribution of resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of why those asymmetries exist or persist. The author provides a method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and method to racist ideologies in the United States, which systematically function to discourage white Americans from sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to reinforcing the latter s place at the bottom of a racial hierarchy that has always existed in the US."--
Note:
Bloomsbury Academic
,
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Also issued in print: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350246287
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350246294
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350246300
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350246317
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781350246294
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781350246294
Language:
Undetermined
Keywords:
Electronic books
DOI:
10.5040/9781350246324
