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Desire for race / Sarah Daynes and Orville Lee.
Author
Daynes, Sarah
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Format
Book
Language
English
Published/Created
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Description
viii, 242 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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HT1523 .D39 2008
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Race
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Philosophy
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Race relations
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Philosophy
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Racism
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Lee, Orville
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Summary note
"What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than a social construction, unsupported in biological terms and upheld for the simple reason that we continue to believe in its reality. Deploying concepts from the sociology of knowledge, religion, social memory, and psychoanalysis, the authors consider the conditions that contribute to this persistence of belief and suggest ways in which the idea of race can free itself from outdated nineteenth-century notions of biological essentialism. By conceiving of race as something that is simultaneously real and unreal, this study generates a new conceptualization that will be required reading for scholars in this field."--Jacket.
Bibliographic references
Includes bibliographical references (p. 230-239) and index.
Contents
American sociology
Marxism
British social anthropology
British cultural studies
Intermediate reflections on essentialism
Belief and social action
Theorizing the racial ensemble
The politics of memory and race
Desire.
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ISBN
9780521862103 ((hardback))
0521862108 ((hardback))
9780521680479 ((pbk.))
0521680476 ((pbk.))
LCCN
2008025500
OCLC
231580954
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