Making Race Matter: Bodies, Space and Identity

by Claire E. Alexander, Caroline Knowles

Overview

This collection of original pieces brings together critical perspectives on the intersection of ethnic and gender identities as spatialized forms of embodied social practice, tackling important recent themes such as whiteness, masculinity, the body, sexuality, diaspora and globalization. Designed to bring these debates to students in a way that bridges contemporary theory with vivid case material, this is a lively and wide-ranging text of relevance to a range of social sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403904133
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	05/18/2017
Edition description:	2005
Pages:	272
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.69(d)

About the Author

CLAIRE E. ALEXANDER is Professor of Sociology at the University of Manchester, UK. She is the author of The Art of Being Black (1996), The Asian Gang (2000) and co-author (with Joya Chatterji & Annu Jalais) of The Bengal Diaspora (2016).

CAROLINE KNOWLES is Reader in Sociology at Goldsmiths College, University of London, UK.

Table of Contents

Foreword; H.Carby
Introduction; C.Knowles & C.Alexander
Mapping Subjectivities; D.Goldberg
PART 1: SPACE & DIASPORA
"Home from Home": Youth, Belonging and Place; L.Back
Diaspora Politics Through Style: Racialized and Politicized Fashion in Global Markets; P.Bhachu
Global and Local Articulations of Asian Identity; M.Song
Comparing New Migration with Old: Exploring the Issue of Asylum and Settlement; K.Reed
Making Whiteness: British Lifestyle Migrants in Hong Kong; C.Knowles, Photographs by D.Harper
PART 2: THE BODY & SUBJECTIVITY
Brilliant Bodies, Fragile Minds: Race, Sport and the Mind/Body Split; B.St.Louis
Remembering Bodies, Healing Histories: The Emotional Politics of Everyday Freedom; D.Noble
Uses of the Exotic: Body, Narrative, Mixedness; S.Ali
Fear and Loathing in Front of a Mirror; O.Stuart
Culture, Sexuality and Identity in an Ethnic Minority Community: The Case of Greek-Cypriot Gay Men in London; C.Phellas
Embodying Violence: 'Riots', Dis/Order and the Private Lives of 'the Asian Gang'; C.Alexander
Afterwords; D.Goldberg.