Naming Race, Naming Racisms - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415451612 ISBN 13: 9780415451611

Publisher: Routledge, 2009

Synopsis

Eschewing social scientific approaches, which tend to examine race and racism in terms of quasi-static ideal types, this book surveys differing historical contexts from the era of scientific racism in the nineteenth-century to the post-racial racism of the post 9/11 period, and from Europe to the United States, in order to understand how racism has been articulated in differing situations. It is distinguished by the attention it pays to the on-going power of racial discourse in the contemporary period as a legitimating factor in oppression. It exemplifies methodological openness, combining the work of historians, philosophers, religious scholars, and literary critics, and includes differing theoretical models in pursuing a critical approach to race: cultural studies; trauma theory and psychoanalysis; critical theory and consideration of the "new racism"; and postcolonialism and the literature on globalization. It brings together the work of leading academics with younger practitioners and is capped off by an interview with world-renowned intellectual Cornel West on black intellectuals in America.

This book was previously published as a special issue of Patterns of Prejudice.

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About the Author

Jonathan Judaken is an associate professor of intellectual and cultural history at the University of Memphis.

Edition details

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415451612
• ISBN 13: 9780415451611
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Judaken Jonathan