Race and racism : a decolonial approach /
"This book is the English publication of the 2022 Adorno Lectures given by Linda Martín Alcoff at the invitation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. The lectures have been revised and expanded. The overall argument of the book is that the topics of race and racism need a decoloni...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
[2025]
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| Series: | Philosophy of race (Oxford, England)
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| Summary: | "This book is the English publication of the 2022 Adorno Lectures given by Linda Martín Alcoff at the invitation of the Institute for Social Research in Frankfurt. The lectures have been revised and expanded. The overall argument of the book is that the topics of race and racism need a decolonial framing if we are to understand their genealogy in the modern world, their current iterations, and the path forward. The lectures develop this argument in three ways. Chapter One presents an account of racialized identities that foreground their essential historical nature, as created through the shared experiences and collective actions of both elite and non-elite groups. Overcoming racial oppression cannot, then, occur with a policy change, but only through new historical experiences. Chapter Two argues for an expanded focus on cultural racism over individual attitudinal forms. Cultural racism focuses on, and ranks, peoples, and uses this to justify global inequalities and injustices. Chapter Three dissects the current crisis of white identity that is energizing the far right on both sides of the Atlantic, with a focus on migrants as the source of nearly every social problem. The move to ethno-nationalism can only be forestalled with a direct engagement with the Replacement Theory and the implications of colonialism's ongoing effects. If we face our histories, and understand them with more accuracy and nuance, we can formulate a way forward in unity"-- |
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| Physical Description: | xxv, 216 pages ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-210). |
| ISBN: | 9780197796917 0197796915 9780197796924 0197796923 9780197796948 019779694X 9780197796931 0197796931 |