What is the speci?city of contemporary racism? And what happens to questions of race in a context where multiculturalism is taken for granted. Few authors address these kinds of questions with subtlety. For the most part, questions of racism are treated either as self-evident or alternatively as self-evidenced. The?rstapproach,accentuatedineverydaylife,andplayedoutinmediaexposés, is the tendencyto treat racism as manifestly self-evident. We just know what racism is in principle, and we just know what it looks like when we see it in practice. Dualistic assumptions dominate this sense of identity relations – persons are racist or they are not; an act is racist or it is not. However, despite the obviousness of racism in contexts where different people have different seating arrangements on a bus, or somebody says “I am better than you because your skin-colour is different”, this approach barely comes to terms with the depth of embodied politics and the elusiveness of structures of racism in the contemporary world.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9789048176472
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-90-481-7647-2
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 19.10.2010
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: Softcover Nachdruck of hardcover 1. Auflage 2008
- Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
- Gewicht: 353 g
- Seiten: 214
- Format (B x H x T): 155 x 235 x 13 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt