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Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning
David Theo Goldberg
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Description for Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning
Paperback. Racist Culture offers an anti--essentialist and non--reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. Num Pages: 328 pages, 0. BIC Classification: JFC; JFFJ; JFSL; JHMP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 155 x 20. Weight in Grams: 492.
Racist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that rascisms are often not aberrant or irrational but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: "the West"; "the underclass"; and "the primitive". This normalization of racism reflected in the West mirrors South Africa an its use and conception of space. ... Read more
Racist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that rascisms are often not aberrant or irrational but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: "the West"; "the underclass"; and "the primitive". This normalization of racism reflected in the West mirrors South Africa an its use and conception of space. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Hoboken, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780631180784
SKU
V9780631180784
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About David Theo Goldberg
David Theo Goldberg teaches in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University.
Reviews for Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning
"It is a significant and much needed contribution to studies of racism. As an advance on the existing literature, it is unusually important. Its scholarship is impressive, it is highly readable and it will be of widespread interest among scholars and students.... should also be of interest to general readers." Peter Fitzpatrick, Professor of Law and Social Theory, University of ... Read more