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Robert Young - Signs of Race in Poststructuralism, Inbunden

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

Signs of Race in Poststructuralism

Toward a Transformative Theory of Race

Av Robert Young

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This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct? The answer is that race works because it operates like a commodity, and like any commodity, as long as it generates value (understood in the widest possible sense: economic, political, and cultural-ideological value), it will remain in circulation. This study should contribute to our understanding of race by linking questions of use value to exchange value.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2009-03-16
  • Mått: 162 x 239 x 18 mm
  • Vikt: 399 g
  • Format: Inbunden
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 176
  • Förlag: University Press of America
  • ISBN: 9780761845058
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Robert Young is associate professor of English at University of Alabama. He specializes in African-American literary and cultural theory.

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In this tightly argued book, Professor Young takes on the liberal race establishment. He insistently critiques the multiple ways—through the deployment of anti-realism, fetishism, and pluralism—in which "race" as discourse or experience becomes decoupled from class. Young understands class not as a category of identity we should respect and maintain; rather, he understands it primarily as social relations of production, political economy: he thus emphasizes the connection between "racial" discourse as ideology and structures and processes of class rule, structures that make the fight against racism central.

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