The Everyday Practice of Race in America : Ambiguous Privilege
by McKnight, Utz
Published by : Routledge (London) Physical details: vi,122 Pages 23x16 cm | PB ISBN:9780415780551. Year: 2010| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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General Stacks | Non-fiction | 305.800973 M478E 2010 (Browse shelf) | Available | 17196 |
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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 theoretical foundation for a politics of critical race practice, it provides insight into why we have sought the legal and formal institutional solutions to racism that have developed since the 1960s, and then describes why these are inadequate to addressing the new practices of racism in society.
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