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Samira Kawash - Dislocating the Color Line - 9780804727747 - V9780804727747
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Dislocating the Color Line

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Description for Dislocating the Color Line Hardback. This book provides a historical context for racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in the native writings of African-Americans in the 19th and 20th centuries. Series: Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses. Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2ABM; DSA; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 580.

Inquiries into the meaning and force of race in American culture have largely focused on questions of identity and difference—What does it mean to have a racial identity? What constitutes racial difference? Such questions assume the basic principle of racial division, which todays seems to be becoming an increasingly bitter and seemingly irreparable chasm between black and white.

This book confronts this contemporary problem by shifting the focus of analysis from understanding differences to analyzing division. It provides a historical context for the recent resurgence of racial division by tracing the path of the color line as it appears in ... Read more

The history of the color line in the United States is coeval with that of the nation. The author suggests that throughout this history, the color line has not functioned simply to name biological or cultural difference, but more important, it has served as a principle of division, classification, and order. In this way, the color line marks the inseparability of knowledge and power in a racially demarcated society. The author shows how, from the time of slavery to today, the color line has figured as the locus of such central tenets of American political life as citizenship, subjectivity, community, law, freedom, and justice.

This book seeks not only to understand, but also to bring critical pressure on the interpretations, practices, and assumptions that correspond to and buttress representations of racial difference. The work of dislocating the color line lies in uncovering the uncertainty, the incoherency, and the discontinuity that the common sense of the color line masks, while at the same time elucidating the pressures that transform the contingent relations of the color line into common sense.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1997
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Series
Mestizo Spaces/Espaces Metisses
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804727747
SKU
V9780804727747
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About Samira Kawash
Samira Kawash is Assistant Professor of English at Rutgers University.

Reviews for Dislocating the Color Line
'There are many, I would even say too many, books on the race issue. Most of them repeat endlessly the same questions and offer the same answers. This book is an exception in the recent debate about race because Samira Kawash offers us a new, diachronic perspective based on a new methodological approach.' Bogumil Jewiewicki, Professor of History, Laval University ... Read more

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