The everyday practice of race in America : ambiguous privilege / / Utz McKnight

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910820197103321
• Autore: McKnight Utz Lars.
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
• ISBN: 1-136-97821-6; 1-136-97822-4; 1-282-58664-5; 9786612586644; 0-203-85266-4
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
• Collana: Postcolonial Politics
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetti: Postcolonialism - United States; Postcolonialism -- United States; Public opinion - United States; Public opinion -- United States; Race discrimination - United States; Race discrimination -- United States; Racism - United States - History; Racism -- United States -- History; Racism - United States - Philosophy; Racism -- United States -- Philosophy; Racism - United States - Public opinion; Racism -- United States -- Public opinion; United States - Politics and government; United States -- Politics and government; United States - Race relations; United States -- Race relations; Racism - Philosophy - United States; Racism - History - United States; Racism - Public opinion - United States; Ethnic & Race Studies; Gender & Ethnic Studies; Social Sciences; United States Politics and government; United States Race relations
• 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 (pages [115]-119) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Representation: Class ambiguity and racial subjectivity; Chapter 2 The everyday and ordinary: Developing a theory of race; Chapter 3 Cody's, Foucault, and race; Chapter 4 Working together: Conditional subjectivity; Chapter 5 Walking the streets; Chapter 6 Passing and mixing: Challenging the racial subject; Bibliography; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives. The discussion ranges over a wide theoretical landscape, bringing to bear the insights of Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, Cornel West and others to the dilemmas represented by the continuing social practice of race. The book lays the theoretica