Race and ethnicity : across time, space, and discipline / edited by Rodney D. Coates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Coates, Rodney D.

Series:

Studies in critical social sciences ; v. 2.

Studies in critical social sciences, 1573-4234 ; v. 2

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ethnicity.

Race.

Race awareness.

Black people--Race identity.

Black people.

Ethnic attitudes.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (508 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Race and ethnicity, much like water and air, are all around us. Yet, race and ethnicity remain imprevious to many of us. Hence in this volume authors were challenged to think outside the box. As such, scholars were encouraged to dare to contemplate, to evaluate, and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity from radically different perspectives. This critical process required them to evaluate their own assumptions and those of their respective disciplines. Therefore, much like walking a tight-rope without a net, the scholars attempt to free themselves from the disciplinarian blinders that often preclude the development of fresh insights. Collectively the papers challenge the way we conceive and perceive of race and ethnicity. As a consequence they go past the ideological constraints that normally limit such discourse by disciplinarian boundaries or disciplinarian myopia. Therefore, these papers provide a critical reappraisal of race and ethnicity.

Contents:

Introduction

Part One Race Across Time

1. Apples are the Color of Blood

2. Confederate Police and the Post-Slavery Racial Order: A New Perspective on the New Orleans Race Riot of 1866

3. The State and the Production of Racial Categories

4. The End of Race? Rethinking the Meaning of Blackness in Post-Civil Rights America

5. How to Talk Nasty About Blacks Without Sounding "Racist": Exposing the Sophisticated Style of Color-Blind

Racism

6. A Critical Sociology of African Americans, the U.S. Welfare State, and Neoliberalism in the Era of Corporate

Globalization

7. Looking B(l)ackward: 2097-1997

Part Two Race Across Space

8. Transforming Racial Identity Through Affirmative Action

9. Do the right thing - race and ethnic differences in integrity

10. The Black Radical Traditions in the South: Confronting Empire

11. Exploring the Racial Discrimination and Competition Processes of Race-Specific Violence in the Urban Context

12. A Black Feminist Critique of the Social Construction of Crack Cocaine along Race, Class, and Gender Lines

13. Dining While Black: Racial Rituals and the Black American Restaurant Experience

14. Ethnography, Demography and Service-Learning: Situating Lynwood Park

Part Three Race Across Discipline

15. On Black Athena , Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the Problem of Race

in Classical Antiquity

16. Metaphoric Black Bodies in the Hinterlands of Race; Or, Towards Deciphering the Du Boisian Concept of Race

and Nation in "The Conservation of Races"

17. Sexism, Racism and African American Muslim Women: What Does Wearing Hijab Mean to Them?

18. Repression, Racism, and Resistance: The New Orleans Black Urban Regime and a Challenge to Racist

Neoliberalism

19. Ethnic Pluralism and National Identity in Nigeria

20. I Don't Sing, I Don't Dance, and I Don't Play Basketball! Is Sociology Declining in Significance, or Has It Just

Returned To Business As Usual?

References

Notes on Contributors

Index.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [431]-471) and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91546-3

9786610915460

90-474-0594-3

1-4294-0839-1

OCLC:

228168344

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789047405948 DOI