Making Race Matter: Bodies, Space and Identity

ISBN-13: 9781403904140 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 272 str.

Claire Alexander

Opis

This collection of original pieces brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of ethnic and gender identities as spatialized forms of embodied social practice, tackling important recent themes such as whiteness, masculinity, the body, sexuality, diaspora and globalization. Designed to bring these debates to students in a way that bridges contemporary theory with vivid case material, this is a lively and wide-ranging text of relevance to a range of social sciences.

Spis treści

Foreword; H.Carby.- Introduction; C.Knowles & C.Alexander.- Mapping Subjectivities; D.Goldberg.- PART 1: SPACE & DIASPORA.- "Home from Home": Youth, Belonging and Place; L.Back.- Diaspora Politics Through Style: Racialized and Politicized Fashion in Global Markets; P.Bhachu.- Global and Local Articulations of Asian Identity; M.Song.- Comparing New Migration with Old: Exploring the Issue of Asylum and Settlement; K.Reed.- Making Whiteness: British Lifestyle Migrants in Hong Kong; C.Knowles, Photographs by D.Harper.- PART 2: THE BODY & SUBJECTIVITY.- Brilliant Bodies, Fragile Minds: Race, Sport and the Mind/Body Split; B.St.Louis.- Remembering Bodies, Healing Histories: The Emotional Politics of Everyday Freedom; D.Noble.- Uses of the Exotic: Body, Narrative, Mixedness; S.Ali.- Fear and Loathing in Front of a Mirror; O.Stuart.- Culture, Sexuality and Identity in an Ethnic Minority Community: The Case of Greek-Cypriot Gay Men in London; C.Phellas.- Embodying Violence: 'Riots', Dis/Order and the Private Lives of 'the Asian Gang'; C.Alexander.- Afterwords; D.Goldberg.

O autorze

CLAIRE ALEXANDER is Lecturer in Sociology at the London School of Economic and Political Science, UK. She has researched and published on race, youth and masculinity in Britain. Publications include The Art of Being Black (Oxford University Press, 1996) and The Asian Gang (Berg 2000).

CAROLINE KNOWLES is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK. She is the author of Bedlam on the Streets (Routledge 2000), Family Boundaries: The Invention of Normality and Dangerousness (Broadview Press, 1996), Race, Discourse and Labourism (Routledge 1992) and joint editor of Resituating Identities: The Politics of Race, Ethnicity and Culture (Broadview Press, 1996).