Racism, Modernity and Identity

On the Western Front

Ali Rattansi, Sallie Westwood (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

350 Seiten

1994
Polity Press (Verlag)
978-0-7456-0941-6 (ISBN)

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Offers critical perspectives from the cultural and intellectual frontiers of the West. The primary focus is on analyzing racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession and the resurgence of neo-Fascism.

The West has a unique civilization, a powerful front of modernity, liberty, democracy and affluence. This volume offers critical perspectives from both inside and outside the cultural and intellectual frontiers of the Western project. The primary focus is on analyzing racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of neo-Fascism, and a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity. The chapters assess the value of Marxist perspectives and newer approaches that take "modernity" and "postmodernity" as frameworks for analysis. They also explore how European identities have been continually reconstructed by a cultural repression of the non-Western, whether through colonial discourses, the denial of Asian, Islamic, Judaic and African influences or the effects of Eurocentric conceptions of subjectivity in the psychiatric disciplining of ethnic minorities.

Part I: Racism and "Postmodernity". 1. "Western" Racisms, Ethnicities and Identitities in a "Postmodern" Frame: Ali Rattansi (City University, London). 2. Exploring Other Zones of the Postmodern: Problems of Ethnocentrism and Difference across the North-South Divide: David Slater. Part II: The Western Front. 3. Unpacking the West: How European is Europe? Jan Nederveen Pieterse. 4. Egypt in America: Racism and Colonial Discourse: Robert Young. Part III: Racisms and Modernity in Europe . 5. Racism in Europe: Unity and Diversity: Michel Wieviorka. 6. Explaining Racism in Contemporary Europe: Robert Miles. 7. Universalism and Difference: The Crisis of Anti-Racism in Britain and France: Cathie Lloyd. Part IV: Racialized Identities, Local and Global. 8. Racism, Mental Illness and the Politics of Identity: Sallie Westwood (University of Leicester). 9. Racial Formation and Hegemony: Global and Local Developments: Howard Winant.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	20.11.1994
Zusatzinfo	index
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-7456-0941-4 / 0745609414
ISBN-13	978-0-7456-0941-6 / 9780745609416
Zustand	Neuware