Racialized Boundaries: Race, Nation, Gender, Colour and Class and the Anti-Racist Struggle

ISBN-13: 9780415103886 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 240 str.

Floya Anthias; Nira Yuval-Davis; Nira Yuvai-Davis

Opis

Racialized Boundaries develops an overall perspective for analyzing the constructs of race and racism. The authors maintain that the concept of race has to be located within the wider category of the ethnos. Ethnicity is understood primarily as a political rather than a cultural phenomenon. The authors explore the ways in which race and racism serve as a structuring principle for national processes, both in terms of defining the boundaries of the nation and the constituents of national identity. They examine the ways in which the phenomenon of race and racism interrelate with other social divisions, such as class and gender and the way blackness can play a part in the racialization process. Finally the authors consider some of the ideologies that have influenced the race relations industry as well as some of the racial struggles around it. In particular, they look at the ideology of the community which underlies, in different ways, both the multi-culturalist and anti-racist schools of thought, and link it to a critical examination of identity politics.

Recenzje

`A very useful book which will provide students with an excellent exploration of this field' - Jon Spoencer, Manchester University

'The book is written in a style and language students can understand' - Kwame Akuffo, Thames Valley University

Spis treści

Chapter 1 The Concept of ‘Race’ and the Racialization of Social Divisions; Chapter 2 Whose Nation? Whose State?; Chapter 3 It’s All a Question of Class…; Chapter 4 Connecting Race and Gender; Chapter 5 Racism and the Colour ‘Black’; Chapter 6 Resisting Racism;

O autorze

Floya Anthias, Nira Yuval-Davis, Harriet Cain