Re-Situating Identities : The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture / Vered Amit-Talai, Caroline Knowles.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Amit-Talai, Vered, editor.

Knowles, Caroline, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race relations.

Ethnic relations.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (314 p.)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2019]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Re-Situating Identities signals a crucial move away from the extremes of statistical reductionism and textual preoccupation which have marked race and ethnic studies. Instead, inspired by an insistence on concrete social and political change, these essays seek to re-energize the field by systematic and empirically grounded investigation of the production of identities in power relationships. Working with ethnographic data, life histories, and historical documents, sociologists, anthropologists and cultural theorists from Britain, Canada, and the United States present a diverse array of scenarios from courtrooms and classrooms to diasporas, communities, state memorials, and media representations. Each scenario raises an array of critical questions of existing theory and policy: What is the impact of multiculturalist policies? Should the term "race" still be used? What are the controversies surrounding the concept of "black cultures"? What part do race and ethnicity play in the construction of collective memories? What part do notions of home play in the organization of racial exclusion? What can we learn about racism from life stories? How is nationalism mediated by the local experiences it attempts to supersede? And what does the local mean and what is its relationship to globalization?

Contents:

Does "race" matter? Transatlantic perspectives on racism after "race relations" / Robert Miles and Rudy Torres

Racism, biography, and psychiatry / Caroline Knowles

Homing devices / Phil Cohen

Minority circuit: identity politics and the professionalization of ethnic activism / Vered Amit-Talai

Mediating identity: Kashtin, the media, and the Oka Crisis

Canada's visible minorities: identity and representation / Anthony Synnott and David Howes

Beauty of valuing black cultures / Alrick Cambridge

Remembering forgetfully / Henri Lustiger-Thaler.

Shared memory in community: oral history, communiy, and race relations / Tracy E. K'Meyer

Dilemmas of discovery: European and "America" / Robert Paine

Owning the nation, and the personal nature of nationalism: locality and the rhetoric of nationhood in Scotland / Anthony P. Cohen

Multiple landscapes of transnational Asian women in the Diaspora / Parminder Bhachu.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Aug 2019)

ISBN:

9781442602946

1442602945

OCLC:

999645954