Anatomy of racism

Summary: Through a systematic attack upon the politics of language, categories, and concepts informing racist practice, Anatomy of Racism examines the nature of racism conceptually and historically to unveil its chameleonic and parasitic character as evidenced in the body of scientific and philosophical, socio-political and legal, and cultural expression. Through a systematic attack upon the politics of language, categories, and concepts informing racist practice, Anatomy of Racism examines the nature of racism conceptually and historically to unveil its chameleonic and parasitic character as evidenced in the body of scientific and philosophical, socio-political and legal, and cultural expression.

Record details

ISBN: 0816618046
ISBN: 9780816618040
Physical Description: xxiii, 356 p. : ill ; 23 cm.
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Publisher: Minneapolis, Minn. : University of Minnesota Press, c1990.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-340) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Racisms / Kwame Anthony Appiah -- Biology and the new racism / Martin Barker -- Race and gender : the role of analogy in science / Nancy Leys Stepan -- Toward a critical theory of "race" / Lucius Outlaw -- Racism and the West : from praxis to logos / Christian Delacampagne -- Equality : beyond dualism and oppression / John L. Hodge -- The face of Blackness / Frantz Fanon -- Bichon and the Blacks ; African grammar / Roland Barthes -- What Celie knows that you should know / Barbara Christian -- "I'm down on whores" : race and gender in Victorian London / Sander L. Gilman -- "Ours to Jew or die" : Céline and the categories of anti-semitism / Julia Kristeva -- Interrogating identity : the postcolonial prerogative / Homi K. Bhabha -- Zionism from the standpoint of its victims / Edward W. Said -- Racism and the innocence of law / Peter Fitzpatrick -- One nation under a groove : the cultural politics of "race" and racism in Britain / Paul Gilroy -- Paradoxes of universality / Etienne Balibar -- The social formation of racist discourse / David Theo Goldberg -- Critical remarks / Henry Louis Gates, Jr.