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



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Autore: McKnight Utz Lars. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The everyday practice of race in America : ambiguous privilege / / Utz McKnight Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2010
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (129 p.)
Disciplina: 305.800973
Soggetto topico: 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
Soggetto geografico: United States Politics and government
United States Race relations
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
Titolo autorizzato: The everyday practice of race in America  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-136-97821-6
1-136-97822-4
1-282-58664-5
9786612586644
0-203-85266-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910820197103321
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Serie: Postcolonial Politics