Race and Ethnicity : : Across Time, Space and Discipline / / edited by Rodney D. Coates.

• Superior document: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 2
• TeilnehmendeR: Coates, Rodney D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden;, Boston : : BRILL,, 2004.
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Critical Social Sciences ; 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (508 p.)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Race and ethnicity, much like water and air, are all around us. Yet, race and ethnicity remain imprevious to many of us. Hence in this volume authors were challenged to think outside the box. As such, scholars were encouraged to dare to contemplate, to evaluate, and analyze issues regarding race and ethnicity from radically different perspectives. This critical process required them to evaluate their own assumptions and those of their respective disciplines. Therefore, much like walking a tight-rope without a net, the scholars attempt to free themselves from the disciplinarian blinders that often preclude the development of fresh insights. Collectively the papers challenge the way we conceive and perceive of race and ethnicity. As a consequence they go past the ideological constraints that normally limit such discourse by disciplinarian boundaries or disciplinarian myopia. Therefore, these papers provide a critical reappraisal of race and ethnicity.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Part One Race Across Time -- 1. Apples are the Color of Blood -- 2. Confederate Police and the Post-Slavery Racial Order: A New Perspective on the New Orleans Race Riot of 1866 -- 3. The State and the Production of Racial Categories -- 4. The End of Race? Rethinking the Meaning of Blackness in Post-Civil Rights America -- 5. How to Talk Nasty About Blacks Without Sounding "Racist": Exposing the Sophisticated Style of Color-Blind -- Racism -- 6. A Critical Sociology of African Americans, the U.S. Welfare State, and Neoliberalism in the Era of Corporate -- Globalization -- 7. Looking B(l)ackward: 2097-1997 -- Part Two Race Across Space -- 8. Transforming Racial Identity Through Affirmative Action -- 9. Do the right thing - race and ethnic differences in integrity -- 10. The Black Radical Traditions in the South: Confronting Empire -- 11. Exploring the Racial Discrimination and Competition Processes of Race-Specific Violence in the Urban Context -- 12. A Black Feminist Critique of the Social Construction of Crack Cocaine along Race, Class, and Gender Lines -- 13. Dining While Black: Racial Rituals and the Black American Restaurant Experience -- 14. Ethnography, Demography and Service-Learning: Situating Lynwood Park -- Part Three Race Across Discipline -- 15. On Black Athena , Hippocratic Medicine, and Roman Imperial Edicts: Egyptians and the Problem of Race -- in Classical Antiquity -- 16. Metaphoric Black Bodies in the Hinterlands of Race; Or, Towards Deciphering the Du Boisian Concept of Race -- and Nation in "The Conservation of Races" -- 17. Sexism, Racism and African American Muslim Women: What Does Wearing Hijab Mean to Them? -- 18. Repression, Racism, and Resistance: The New Orleans Black Urban Regime and a Challenge to Racist -- Neoliberalism -- 19. Ethnic Pluralism and National Identity in Nigeria -- 20. I Don't Sing, I Don't Dance, and I Don't Play Basketball! Is Sociology Declining in Significance, or Has It Just -- Returned To Business As Usual? -- References -- Notes on Contributors -- Index.