Re-Situating Identities : : The Politics of Race, Ethnicity, and Culture /

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

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Toronto Press eBook-Package Archive 1933-1999
MitwirkendeR:
Amit-Talai, Vered,
Bhachu, Parminder,
Cambridge, Alrick,
Cohen, Anthony P.,
Cohen, Phil,
Howes, David,
Knowles, Caroline,
K’Meyer, Tracy E.,
Lustiger-Thaler, Henri,
Miles, Robert,
Morrison, Val,
Paine, Robert,
Synnott, Anthony,
Torres, Rudy,
HerausgeberIn:
Amit-Talai, Vered,
Knowles, Caroline,
Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2019]
©1996
Year of Publication:2019
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (320 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • Introduction: Against Parochialism and Fragmentation
  • Part I: Race and Racism
  • Introduction
  • 1. Does "Race" Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after "Race Relations"
  • 2. Racism, Biography, and Psychiatry
  • 3. Homing Devices
  • Part II: The Politics of Identity
  • Introduction
  • 4. The Minority Circuit: Identity Politics and the Professionalization of Ethnic Activism1
  • 5. Mediating Identity: Kashtin, the Media, and the Oka Crisis1
  • 6. Canada's Visible Minorities: Identity and Representation
  • 7. The Beauty of Valuing Black Cultures
  • Part III: Memory and Histories
  • Introduction
  • 8. Remembering Forgetfully
  • 9. Shared Memory in Community: Oral History, Community, and Race Relations
  • 10. Dilemmas of Discovery: Europeans and "America"
  • Part IV: Nationalism and Transnationalism
  • Introduction
  • 11. Owning the Nation, and the Personal Nature of Nationalism: Locality and the Rhetoric of Nationhood in Scotland
  • 12. The Multiple Landscapes of Transnational Asian Women in the Diaspora
  • Index

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