Racialization : studies in theory and practice / / edited by Karim Murji and John Solomos

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910827700603321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005
• ISBN: 1-280-75906-2; 9786610759064; 0-19-155518-5; 1-4237-8664-5
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (320 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): MurjiKarim <1960->; SolomosJohn
• Disciplina: 305.8
• Soggetti: Race awareness; Race; Racism
• 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 and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Cover; Contents; Abbreviations; Notes on Contributors; Introduction: Racialization in Theory and Practice; 1. Racialization in the 'Zone of Ambiguity'; 2. Historical and Contemporary Modes of Racialization; 3. Ambivalent Documents/Fugitive Pieces: Author, Text, Subject, and Racializations; 4. Racial Americanization; 5. Remembered Racialization: Young People and Positioning in Differential Understandings; 6. The Power of Recall: Writing Against Racial Identity; 7. White Lives; 8. Recovering Blackness/Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail's Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence9. White Self-racialization as Identity Fetishism: Capitalism and the Experience of Colonial Whiteness; 10. Racialization and 'White European' Immigration to Britain; 11. Gendered Preferences in Racialized Spaces: Cloning the Physician; 12. Racialization and the Public Spaces of the Multicultural City; 13. The Uses of Racialization: The Time-spaces and Subject-objects of the Raced Body; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; ST; U; V; W; Y; Z
• Sommario/riassunto: Racialization has become one of the central concepts in the study of race and racism. It is widely used in both theoretical and empirical studies of racial situations. There has been a proliferation of texts that use this notion in quite diverse ways. It is used broadly to refer to ways of thinking about race as well as to institutional processes that give expression to forms of ethno-racial categorization. An important issue in the work of writers such as Robert Miles, for example,concerns the ways in which the construction of race is shaped historically and how the usage of that idea forms a