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Discourse and Ideology - A Critique of the Study of Culture (Hardcover)
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Discourse and Ideology - A Critique of the Study of Culture (Hardcover)
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Drawing on poststructuralist approaches, Craig Martin outlines a
theory of discourse, ideology, and domination that can be used by
scholars and students to understand these central elements in the
study of culture. The book shows how discourses are used to
construct social institutions-often classist, sexist, or racist-and
that those social institutions always entail a distribution of
resources and capital in ways that capacitate some subject
positions over others. Such asymmetrical power relations are often
obscured by ideologies that offer demonstrably false accounts of
why those asymmetries exist or persist. The author provides a
method of reading in order to bring matters into relief, and the
last chapter provides a case study that applies his theory and
method to racist ideologies in the United States, which
systematically function to discourage white Americans from
sympathizing with poor African Americans, thereby contributing to
reinforcing the latter's place at the bottom of a racial hierarchy
that has always existed in the US.
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