Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-caste-in-class

Mocombe, Paul Camy (Editor)/ Tomlin, Carol (Editor)/ Wright, Cecile (Editor)

ISBN 10: 0415714370 / ISBN 13: 9780415714372

Published by Routledge, 2013

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254 pages. 9.00x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities: A Racial-caste-in-class
• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0415714370
• ISBN 13: 9780415714372
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Brand New
• Weight: 0.49 kilograms

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Synopsis

This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism) this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural theories, seeks to offer a dialectical understanding of the constitution of black American and British life within the class division and social relations of production of the global capitalist world-system, while accounting for black social agency.

About the Author

Paul Camy Mocombe is Professor of Philosophy and Sociology at West Virginia State University.

Carol Tomlin is a Senior Lecturer in Education Studies at the University of Wolverhampton.

Cecile Wright is Professor of Sociology, Honorary academic, University of Nottingham.