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Record Nr.

UNINA9910465025203321

Autore

Memmi Albert

Titolo

Racism / / Albert Memmi ; foreword by Kwame Anthony Appiah ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Martinot

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis : , : University of Minnesota Press, , [2000]

©2000

ISBN

1-4529-4375-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MartinotSteve

Disciplina

305.8

Soggetti

Racism

Discrimination

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

COVER; CONTENTS; FOREWORD; LIST OF WORKS; INTRODUCTION: THE DOUBLE CONSCIOUSNESS; DESCRIPTION; DEFINITION; TREATMENT; APPENDIX A: AN ATTEMPT AT A DEFINITION; APPENDIX B: WHAT IS RACISM?; APPENDIX C: THE RELATIVITY OF PRIVILEGE; APPENDIX D: THE MYTHIC PORTRAIT OF THE COLONIZED; NOTES

Sommario/riassunto

An eminent social analyst examines the way racism works-and how it can be overcome.Racism: It is social, not "natural"; it is general, not "personal"; and it is tragically effective. In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology-a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another. By turns historical, sociological, and autobiographical, Racism moves beyond individual prejudice and taste to engage the broader questions of collection