Racialization: Studies in Theory and Practice

by Karim Murji, John Solomos

Overview

Racializaton has become one of the central concepts in the study of race and racism. This volume brings together leading international scholars from a range of backgrounds to address key facets of the concept in a wide range of social and political arenas, including gender relations, policing, urban communities, youth cultures, immigration, and political life.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780199257034
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	02/17/2005
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	9.13(w) x 6.27(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Open University

City University, London

Table of Contents

PrefaceIntroduction: Racialization in Theory and Practice, Karim Murji and John Solomos1. Racialization in the 'Zone of Ambiguity', Brett St Louis2. Historical and Contemporary Modes of Racialization, Michael Banton3. Ambivalent Documents/Fugitive Pieces: Author, Text, Subject, and Racializations, Avtar Brah4. Racial Americanization, David Theo Goldberg5. Remembered Racialization: Young People and Positioning in Differential Understandings, Ann Phoenix6. The Power of Recall: Writing Against Racial Identity, Vron Ware7. White Lives, Anoop Nayak8. Recovering Blackness/Repudiating Whiteness: The Daily Mail's Construction of the Five White Suspects Accused of the Racist Murder of Stephen Lawrence, Eugene McLaughlin9. White Self-Racialization as Identity Fetishism: Capitalism and the Experience of Colonial Whiteness, Ghassan Hage10. Racialization and 'White European' Immigration to Britain, Tony Kushner11. Gendered Preferences in Racialized Spheres: Cloning The Physician, Philomena Essed12. Racialization and the Public Spheres of the City, Michael Keith13. The Uses of Racialization: The Time-Spaces and Subject-Objects of the Raced Body, Ali Rattansi