Re-Situating Identities
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Re-Situating Identities

The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Re-Situating Identities

The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture

About this book

Re-Situating Identities signals a crucial move away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation which have marked race and ethnic studies. Instead, inspired by an insistence on concrete social and political change, these essays seek to re-energize the field by systematic and empirically grounded investigation of the production of identities in power relationships. Working with ethnographic data, life histories, and historical documents, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists from Britain, Canada, and the United States present a diverse array of scenarios from courtrooms and classrooms to diasporas, communities, state memorials, and media representations. Each scenario raises an array of critical questions of existing theory and policy: What is the impact of multiculturalist policies? Should the term "race" still be used? What are the controversies surrounding the concept of "black cultures"? What part do race and ethnicity play in the construction of collective memories? What part do notions of home play in the organization of racial exclusion? What can we learn about racism from life stories? How is nationalism mediated by the local experiences it attempts to supersede? And what does the local mean and what is its relationship to globalization?

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Yes, you can access Re-Situating Identities by Vered Amit-Talai, Caroline Knowles in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Discrimination & Race Relations. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Contributors
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Introduction: Against Parochialism and Fragmentation
  5. Part I: Race and Racism
  6. Introduction
  7. 1. Does "Race" Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after "Race Relations"
  8. 2. Racism, Biography, and Psychiatry
  9. 3. Homing Devices
  10. Part II: The Politics of Identity
  11. Introduction
  12. 4. The Minority Circuit: Identity Politics and the Professionalization of Ethnic Activism1
  13. 5. Mediating Identity: Kashtin, the Media, and the Oka Crisis1
  14. 6. Canada's Visible Minorities: Identity and Representation
  15. 7. The Beauty of Valuing Black Cultures
  16. Part III: Memory and Histories
  17. Introduction
  18. 8. Remembering Forgetfully
  19. 9. Shared Memory in Community: Oral History, Community, and Race Relations
  20. 10. Dilemmas of Discovery: Europeans and "America"
  21. Part IV: Nationalism and Transnationalism
  22. Introduction
  23. 11. Owning the Nation, and the Personal Nature of Nationalism: Locality and the Rhetoric of Nationhood in Scotland
  24. 12. The Multiple Landscapes of Transnational Asian Women in the Diaspora
  25. Index