Racializing Humankind: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Practices of 'Race' and Racism
Author: Julian T. D. Gärtner
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9783412524180
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Author: Julian T. D. Gärtner
Publisher:
Published: 2022
Total Pages: 330
ISBN-13: 9783412524180
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Julian T. D. Gärtner
Publisher: Böhlau Köln
Published: 2022-02-14
Total Pages: 331
ISBN-13: 3412524174
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDebates on historical and contemporary racism have recently become the subject of increasing public interest. The Black Lives Matter movement as well as the Covid-19 pandemic have underlined the importance and urgent necessity of examining racism in society from a multidisciplinary angle. The many facets of racism in the past and present also challenge the way we deal with history ("historical culture") in a globalized world. Rather than focusing on the history of ideas and its discursive development, this volume will focus on the practices of actors. It examines how and which practices, especially practices of comparing, are constitutive in the construction of 'race' and manifestations of racism. This edited volume brings together interdisciplinary contributions from history, sociology, political science, American studies, literary studies, and media studies. An important focus lies on the social asymmetries created by racialization, including inequalities and violence. The chapters foreground historical and contemporary practices of racism and discuss their appearance in different epochs and locations.
Author: Alexander Ghedi Weheliye
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2014-08-20
Total Pages: 335
ISBN-13: 0822376490
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHabeas Viscus focuses attention on the centrality of race to notions of the human. Alexander G. Weheliye develops a theory of "racializing assemblages," taking race as a set of sociopolitical processes that discipline humanity into full humans, not-quite-humans, and nonhumans. This disciplining, while not biological per se, frequently depends on anchoring political hierarchies in human flesh. The work of the black feminist scholars Hortense Spillers and Sylvia Wynter is vital to Weheliye's argument. Particularly significant are their contributions to the intellectual project of black studies vis-à-vis racialization and the category of the human in western modernity. Wynter and Spillers configure black studies as an endeavor to disrupt the governing conception of humanity as synonymous with white, western man. Weheliye posits black feminist theories of modern humanity as useful correctives to the "bare life and biopolitics discourse" exemplified by the works of Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault, which, Weheliye contends, vastly underestimate the conceptual and political significance of race in constructions of the human. Habeas Viscus reveals the pressing need to make the insights of black studies and black feminism foundational to the study of modern humanity.
Author: Ali Rattansi
Publisher:
Published: 2020
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 0198834799
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRacism is ever present today, and it has become common now to refer to a variety of racisms, from biological to cultural, colour-blind, and structural racisms. Ali Rattansi explores the history of racism and illuminates contemporary issues in this controversial subject, from intersectionality to cultural racism, to the debate over whiteness.
Author: Mark B. Brown
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2009
Total Pages: 371
ISBN-13: 026201324X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn argument that draws on canonical and contemporary thinkers in political theory and science studies--from Machiavelli to Latour--for insights on bringing scientific expertise into representative democracy.
Author: Cathy Benedict
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 737
ISBN-13: 0199356157
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Social Justice in Music Education provides a comprehensive overview and scholarly analyses of challenges relating to social justice in musical and educational practice worldwide, and provides practical suggestions that should result in more equitable and humane learning opportunities for students of all ages.
Author: Camisha A. Russell
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2018-12-06
Total Pages: 204
ISBN-13: 0253035910
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe use of assisted reproductive technologies (ART)—in vitro fertilization, artificial insemination, and gestational surrogacy—challenges contemporary notions of what it means to be parents or families. Camisha A. Russell argues that these technologies also bring new insight to ideas and questions surrounding race. In her view, if we think of ART as medical technology, we might be surprised by the importance that people using them put on race, especially given the scientific evidence that race lacks a genetic basis. However if we think of ART as an intervention to make babies and parents, as technologies of kinship, the importance placed on race may not be so surprising after all. Thinking about race in terms of technology brings together the common academic insight that race is a social construction with the equally important insight that race is a political tool which has been and continues to be used in different contexts for a variety of ends, including social cohesion, economic exploitation, and political mastery. As Russell explores ideas about race through their role in ART, she brings together social and political views to shift debates from what race is to what race does, how it is used, and what effects it has had in the world.
Author: Gloria Ladson-Billings
Publisher: IAP
Published: 2003-11-01
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13: 1607525100
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Cyd Cipolla
Publisher: University of Washington Press
Published: 2017-12-01
Total Pages: 352
ISBN-13: 0295742593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQueer Feminist Science Studies takes a transnational, trans-species, and intersectional approach to this cutting-edge area of inquiry between women’s, gender, and sexuality studies and science and technology studies (STS). The essays here “queer”—or denaturalize and make strange—ideas that are taken for granted in both areas of study. Reimagining the meanings of and relations among queer and feminist theories and a wide range of scientific disciplines, contributors foster new critical and creative knowledge-projects that attend to shifting and uneven operations of power, privilege, and dispossession, while also highlighting potentialities for uncertainty, subversion, transformation, and play. Theoretically and rhetorically powerful, these essays also take seriously the materiality of “natural” objects and phenomena: bones, voles, chromosomes, medical records and more all help substantiate answers to questions such as, What is sex? How are race, gender, sexuality, and other systems of differences co-constituted? The foundational essays and new writings collected here offer a generative resource for students and scholars alike, demonstrating the ingenuity and dynamism of queer feminist scholarship.