Racist Culture

Racist Culture offers an anti-essentialist and non-reductionist account of racialized discourse and racist expression. Goldberg demonstrates that racial thinking is a function of the transforming categories and conceptions of social subjectivity throughout modernity. He shows that rascisms are often not aberrant or irrational but consistent with prevailing social conceptions, particularly of the reasonable and the normal. He shows too how this process is being extended and renewed by categories dominant in present day social sciences: "the West"; "the underclass"; and "the primitive". This normalization of racism reflected in the West mirrors South Africa an its use and conception of space. Goldberg concludes with an extended argument for a pragmatic, antiracist practice.

Author: David Theo Goldberg
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 08/20/1993
Pages: 336
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 8.98h x 6.54w x 1.00d
ISBN13: 9780631180784
ISBN10: 0631180788
BISAC Categories:
- Philosophy | General
- Social Science | Anthropology | Cultural & Social

About the Author
David Theo Goldberg teaches in the School of Justice Studies at Arizona State University.