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Ethnicity --- Ethnology --- Race awareness --- Asia --- Race relations.
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Hamid Dabashi provides a critical examination of the role that immigrant "comprador intellectuals" play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism. In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, Black Skin, White Masks, Frantz Fanon explored the traumatic consequences of the sense of inferiority that colonized people felt, and how this often led them to identify with the ideology of the colonial agency. Brown Skin, White Masks picks up where Frantz Fanon left off. Dabashi extends Fanon's insights as they apply to today's world. Dabashi shows how intellectuals who migrate to the West are often used by the imperial powers to misrepresent their home countries. Just as many Iraqi exiles were used to justify the invasion of Iraq, Dabashi demonstrates that this is a common phenomenon, and examines why and how so many immigrant intellectuals help to sustain imperialism. The book radically alters Edward Said's notion of the "intellectual exile," in order to show the negative impact of intellectual migration. Dabashi examines the ideology of cultural superiority, and provides a passionate account of how these immigrant intellectuals--rootless compradors, and guns for hire--continue to betray any notion of home or country in order to manufacture consent for imperial projects.--From publisher description.
Intellectual life --- Race --- Race relations --- Fanon, Frantz,
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'Race, Crime and Resistance' offers a thought-provoking account of the problematic construction of crimes as racialised. Critical, empirically grounded and theoretically informed, it unpicks the persistence of concepts of race and ethnicity in perceptions and representations of crime.
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Anthropology --- Race --- Social problems
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Feeling adrift after ending a relationship, Julius, a young Nigerian doctor living in New York, takes long walks through the city while listening to the stories of fellow immigrants until a shattering truth is revealed.
Nigerians --- Identity (Psychology) --- Race
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Au moment même où toutes nos idées reçues sur les rapports entre Occident et Moyen-Orient sont en passe d'être bousculées par le vent de l'histoire, celui que le New York Times qualifiait de "doyen des études moyen-orientales" livre sa vision du rôle de la religion dans cette partie du monde. Quel est réellement le poids de l'islam dans la politique, par le passé et de nos jours ? La démocratie est-elle possible en terre d'islam ? Pourquoi les discours extrémistes ont-ils un tel impact ? Pourquoi la question de la place des femmes dans la société est-elle si sensible ? La paix et la liberté sont-elles vraiment possibles ? Les sociétés du Moyen-Orient s'occidentalisent-elles en profondeur ? Sur toutes ces questions que l'actualité nous incite à revisiter, l'un des plus grands spécialistes de l'islam présente le dernier état d'années de réflexion et d'étude. Considéré comme l'un des meilleurs interprètes de la culture et de l'histoire du Moyen-Orient, Bernard Lewis est historien, professeur émérite à l'Université de Princeton. Il a récemment publié Que s'est-il passé ? L'islam, l'Occident et la modernité et L'Islam en crise.
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Do advances in genomic biology create a scientific rationale for long-discredited racial categories? Leading scholars in law, medicine, biology, sociology, history, anthropology, and psychology examine the impact of modern genetics on the concept of race. Contributors trace the interplay between genetics and race in forensic DNA databanks, the biology of intelligence, DNA ancestry markers, and racialized medicine. Each essay explores commonly held and unexamined assumptions and misperceptions about race in science and popular culture.This collection begins with the historical origins and current uses of the concept of "race" in science. It follows with an analysis of the role of race in DNA databanks and racial disparities in the criminal justice system. Essays then consider the rise of recreational genetics in the form of for-profit testing of genetic ancestry and the introduction of racialized medicine, specifically through an FDA-approved heart drug called BiDil, marketed to African American men. Concluding sections discuss the contradictions between our scientific and cultural understandings of race and the continuing significance of race in educational and criminal justice policy.
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Between the turn of the twentieth century and the Brown v. Board of Education decision in 1954, the way that American schools taught about ""race"" changed dramatically. This transformation was engineered by the nation's most prominent anthropologists, including Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Margaret Mead, during World War II. Inspired by scientific racism in Nazi Germany, these activist scholars decided that the best way to fight racial prejudice was to teach what they saw as the truth about race in the institution that had the power to do the most good-American schools. Anthropologists crea
Race --- Racism --- Study and teaching --- History --- United States --- Race relations
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