Racism, Modernity and Identity: On the Western Front - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 0745609422 ISBN 13: 9780745609423

Casa editrice: Polity, 1994

Riassunto

This book analyses racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the Us in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of ne0-Fascism, and a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Sallie Westwood and Ali Rattansi are the authors of Racism, Modernity and Identity: On the Western Front, published by Wiley.

Dalla quarta di copertina

'The West' has a unique civilization, a powerful 'front' - modernity, liberty, democracy, 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 analysing 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.

The chapters are written by some of the most original and influential writers in the field: they include Michel Wieviorka, Howard Winant, Robert Miles, Robert Young, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sallie Westwood, Ali Rattansi and Cathie Lloyd.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Polity
• Data di pubblicazione: 1994
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0745609422
• ISBN 13: 9780745609423
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 310
• Redattore: Rattansi Ali
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile