Desire for race / Sarah Daynes and Orville Lee.

By:

Daynes, Sarah

Contributor(s):

Lee, Orville

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.Description: 1 online resource (viii, 242 pages) : illustrationsContent type:

text

Media type:

computer

Carrier type:

online resource

ISBN:

9780511438462
051143846X
0511437129
9780511437120
9780511489181
0511489188
1107196655
9781107196650
9786611903718
6611903712
0511436343
9780511436345
0511435541
9780511435546

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Desire for race.DDC classification:

305.8001 22

LOC classification:

HT1523 .D39 2008eb

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Contents:

American sociology -- Marxism -- British social anthropology -- British cultural studies -- Intermediate reflections on essentialism -- Belief and social action -- Theorizing the racial ensemble -- The politics of memory and race -- Desire.

Review: "What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than a social construction, unsupported in biological terms and upheld for the simple reason that we continue to believe in its reality. Deploying concepts from the sociology of knowledge, religion, social memory, and psychoanalysis, the authors consider the conditions that contribute to this persistence of belief and suggest ways in which the idea of race can free itself from outdated nineteenth-century notions of biological essentialism. By conceiving of race as something that is simultaneously real and unreal, this study generates a new conceptualization that will be required reading for scholars in this field."--Jacket

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-239) and index.

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"What do people mean when they talk about race? Are they acknowledging a biological fact, a social reality, or a cultural identity? Is race real, or is it merely an illusion? This book brings analytical clarity to one of the most vexed topics in the social sciences today, arguing that race is no more than a social construction, unsupported in biological terms and upheld for the simple reason that we continue to believe in its reality. Deploying concepts from the sociology of knowledge, religion, social memory, and psychoanalysis, the authors consider the conditions that contribute to this persistence of belief and suggest ways in which the idea of race can free itself from outdated nineteenth-century notions of biological essentialism. By conceiving of race as something that is simultaneously real and unreal, this study generates a new conceptualization that will be required reading for scholars in this field."--Jacket

English.

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