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The fateful triangle : race, ethnicity, nation / Stuart Hall ; edited by Kobena Mercer ; foreword by Henry Louis Gates, Jr.

Hall, Stuart, 1932-2014 [Verfasserin/Verfasser]

Mercer, Kobena, 1960- [Herausgeberin/-geber] ; Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., 1950- [Verfass. eines Vorworts]

Cambridge, Massachusetts ; London, England : Harvard University Press, 2017

xxv, 229 Seiten

Englisch

Hier auch später erschienene unveränderte Nachdrucke

Erscheint auch als: The fateful triangle / Hall, Stuart (Online-Ausgabe)

978-0-674-97652-8 (Festeinband : USD 25.95); 0-674-97652-5

2017006478

9780674976528

OCoLC: 1001808473     

OCoLC: 1011096686 (aus SWB)     

LB 48000  | MQ 4000      Ähnliche Literatur

GN495.6

305.8

Basisklassifikation: 71.37 (Ethnosoziologie) ; 71.61 (Diskriminierung)

*Rasse ; Ethnizität ; Nationalbewusstsein      Zum Register

*Rassismus ; Nationalismus ; Kulturelle Identität ; Diskurs ; Globalisierung      Zum Register

LOC-SH: Ethnicity ; Race -- Political aspects ; Ethnocentrism ; Nation-state and globalization

Ethnicity ; Ethnocentrism ; Nation-state and globalization ; Race

Identities are not something we are born with, Hall argues, but are formed and transformed in the discourses of nation, ethnicity, and race. Casting his glance over the modern age, he shows how the imperial view of civilized-versus-barbarian gave way to a politics of identification that grew ever more unpredictable under late 20th century conditions of globalization. Race was long ago discredited by science yet it persists because it operates as a signifier, making meanings out of the binary representation of difference. From Renaissance to Enlightenment, stability prevailed in a West-centric order that fixed "their difference" against "our modernity," but the multi-accentual slide of signifiers also gave rise to new identities among subordinated subjects as well. Ethnicities that exclude others close down the multiple voicing built into every discourse, whereas Hall shows that "black" took on alternative meaning when Caribbean and South Asian migrants fought racism through alliances based not on genetic or cultural grounds but by opening the signifying chain to recodings. Migration is today at the heart of the contradictory tensions thrown up by global dislocations that have unsettled traditional bonds of collective belonging, although when nations make the rights of citizenship conditional on cultural homogeniety what Hall reveals is the extent to which liberal democracy's universalist values were grounded in an assimilationist worldview that has yet to be fully dismantled.--

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Inhaltsverz.: Race: the sliding signifier -- Ethnicity and difference in global times -- Nations and diasporas.