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Racism, Modernity and Identity by Ali Rattansi & Sallie Westwood
On the Western Front
Offers critical perspectives from the cultural and intellectual frontiers of the West. The primary focus is on analyzing racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession and the resurgence of neo-Fascism.'The West' has a unique civilization, a powerful 'front' - modernity, liberty, democracy, affluence. This volume offers critical perspectives from both 'inside' and 'outside' the cultural and intellectual frontiers of the Western project.The primary focus is on analysing racism and changing ethnicities in Europe and the US in the context of new forms of global dislocation, economic recession, the resurgence of neo-Fascism, and a widespread sense of the crisis of Western modernity. The chapters assess the value of Marxist perspectives and newer approaches that take 'modernity' and 'postmodernity' as frameworks for analysis. They also explore how European identities have been continually reconstructed by a cultural repression of the 'non-Western', whether through colonial discourses, the denial of Asian, Islamic, Judaic and African influences or the effects of Eurocentric conceptions of subjectivity in the psychiatric disciplining of ethnic minorities. The chapters are written by some of the most original and influential writers in the field: they include Michel Wieviorka, Howard Winant, Robert Miles, Robert Young, Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Sallie Westwood, Ali Rattansi and Cathie Lloyd. |
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| Author(s) : Ali Rattansi & Sallie Westwood | Format : Paperback Book |
| ISBN-10 : 0745609422 | ISBN-13 : 9780745609423 |
| RRP : £22.99 | Best available price : £17.94 / $ |
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Product Details:
Country Publication : United Kingdom
Publication Date : 01/11/1994
Publisher : Blackwell Publishers
Page Length : 312mm
Page Size : 229mm