Signs of Race in Poststructuralism

Toward a Transformative Theory of Race

Inbunden, Engelska, 2009

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

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

Utforska kategorier

Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Sociala grupper och identitet inom Samhälle och politik
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Robert Young is associate professor of English at University of Alabama. He specializes in African-American literary and cultural theory.

Recensioner i media

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.

Innehållsförteckning

Part 1 AcknowledgmentsPart 2 IntroductionPart 3 Chapter 1: Race as Commodity FetishPart 4 Chapter 2: Putting Materialism back into Race Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of RacePart 5 Chapter 3: The Linguistic Turn, Materialism, and Race: The Postmodern Crisis in African-American Literary Theory and Richard Wright's Critique of IdeologyPart 6 Chapter 4: The Politics of Race and Psychoanalysis: Richard Wright's Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity in Savage HolidayPart 7 Chapter 5: Oral Textualities, Oral (Blues) Poetics, and Oral Erotics: Disabling the Exchange Economy in Gayl Jones' CorregidoraPart 8 Bibliography