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Since its foundation as an academic field in the 1990s, critical
race theory has developed enormously and has, among others, been
supplemented by and (dis)integrated with critical whiteness
studies. At the same time, the field has moved beyond its origins
in Anglo-Saxon environments, to be taken up and re-developed in
various parts of the world – leading to not only new empirical
material but also new theoretical perspectives and analytical
approaches. Gathering these new and global perspectives, this book
presents a much-needed collection of the various forms,
sophisticated theoretical developments and nuanced analyses that
the field of critical race and whiteness theories and studies
offers today. Organized around the themes of emotions,
technologies, consumption, institutions, crisis, identities and on
the margin, this presentation of critical race and whiteness
theories and studies in its true interdisciplinary and
international form provides the latest empirical and theoretical
research, as well as new analytical approaches. Illustrating the
strength of the field and embodying its future research directions,
The Routledge International Handbook of New Critical Race and
Whiteness Studies will appeal to scholars across the social
sciences and humanities with interests in race and whiteness.
Accessible and Concise and aimed at mid-level undergraduates
Engages with the basics on historical context and black feminist
theoretical frameworks Focus of the chapters are on the
exploitation and consumption of the visual black body in the beauty
and advertising industry
In the new arena for anti-racist work in which we find ourselves,
the neo-liberal, 'post-race' university, this interdisciplinary
collection demonstrates common global political concerns about
racism in Higher Education. It highlights a range of issues
regarding students, academic staff and knowledge systems, and all
of the contributions seek to challenge the complacency of the
'post-race' present that is dominant in North-West Europe and North
America, Brazil's mythical 'racial democracy' and South Africa's
post-apartheid 'rainbow nation'. The collection makes clear that we
are not yet past the need for anti-racist institutional action
because of the continuing impact of coloniality on and in these
nations. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367001513_oachapter7.pdf
Accessible and Concise and aimed at mid-level undergraduates
Engages with the basics on historical context and black feminist
theoretical frameworks Focus of the chapters are on the
exploitation and consumption of the visual black body in the beauty
and advertising industry
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on
Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of
racialization; the idea that beauty is a form of social capital and
that light skin and straight hair ensure one's upward mobility in
the labor market and in society. Without denying either the
continuation of such aesthetics or their enduring power, this book
uncovers the cracks in this hegemonic Black beauty; cracks which
become clear if viewed through the lens of the performativity of
everyday practices of stylization and the continuing significance
of discourses of Black anti racist aesthetics. Drawing on detailed
ethnographic research amongst British women of Caribbean heritage,
this volume pursues a broad discussion of beauty within the Black
diaspora contexts of the Caribbean, the UK, the United States and
Latin America through different historical periods to the present
day. With a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity
politics, the author reveals how Black women themselves speak
about, negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. Rather
than dwelling on the workings of racialized beauty standards, this
book reveals how women work with and against existing beauty
paradigms to bring new Black beauty ideals into view at the level
of the everyday. As such, it will appeal not only to sociologists,
but anyone working in the fields of race, ethnicity and
post-colonial thought, feminism and the sociology of the body.
An Open Access edition of this book is available on the Liverpool
University Press website and the OAPEN library. Creolizing Europe
critically interrogates creolization as the decolonial, rhizomatic
thinking necessary for understanding the cultural and social
transformations set in motion through trans/national dislocations.
Exploring the usefulness, transferability, and limitations of
creolization for thinking post/coloniality, raciality and othering
not only as historical legacies but as immanent to and constitutive
of European societies, this volume develops an interdisciplinary
dialogue between the social sciences and the humanities. It
juxtaposes US-UK debates on 'hybridity', 'mixed-race' and the
'Black Atlantic' with Caribbean and Latin American theorizations of
cultural mixing in order to engage with Europe as a permanent scene
of Edouard Glissant's creolization. Further, through a comparative
methodological angle, the focus on Europe is broadened in order to
understand the role of Europe's colonial past in the shaping of its
post/migrant and diasporic present. 'Europe' thus becomes an
expanded and contested term, unthinkable without reference to its
historical legacies and possible futures. While not all the
contributions in this volume explicitly address Edouard Glissant's
approach to creolization, they all engage with aspects of his
thinking. All of the chapters explore the usefulness,
transferability, and limitations of creolization to the European
context. As such, this edited collection offers a significant
contribution and intervention in the fields of European Studies,
Postcolonial Studies, and Cultural Studies on two levels. First, by
emphasizing that race and "cultural mixing" are central to any
thinking about and theorization on/of Europe, and second, by
applying Glissant's perspective to a variety of empirical work on
diasporic spaces, conviviality, citizenship, aesthetics, race,
racism, sexuality, gender, cultural representation and memory.
Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity
offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation.
The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations
between Black women: friends, peers and family members. These
conversations are discussed in the light of the work of Homi
Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gerd Baumann, Claire Alexander and others on
questions of hybridity, identity, otherness and the development of
'new ethnicities'. Tate aims to address what she sees as
significant omissions in contemporary Black Cultural Studies. She
argues that theorists have rarely looked at the process of identity
construction in terms of lived-experience; and that they have
tended to concentrate on the demise of the essential Black subject,
paying little attention to gender. The book points to a
continuation of a 'politics of the skin' in Black identities. As
such it argues against Bhabha's claim that essence is not central
to hybrid identities. The conversations recorded in the book reveal
the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness, in
what Tate calls a 'hybridity-of- the-everyday'. The book introduces
a new interpretative vocabulary to look at the ways in which
hybridity is orchestrated and fashioned, showing it to be
performative, dialogical and dependent on essentialism.
Black Skin, Black Masks: Hybridity, Dialogism, Performativity
offers a timely exploration of Black identity and its negotiation.
The book draws on empirical work recording everyday conversations
between Black women: friends, peers and family members. These
conversations are discussed in the light of the work of Homi
Bhabha, Stuart Hall, Gerd Baumann, Claire Alexander and others on
questions of hybridity, identity, otherness and the development of
'new ethnicities'. Tate aims to address what she sees as
significant omissions in contemporary Black Cultural Studies. She
argues that theorists have rarely looked at the process of identity
construction in terms of lived-experience; and that they have
tended to concentrate on the demise of the essential Black subject,
paying little attention to gender. The book points to a
continuation of a 'politics of the skin' in Black identities. As
such it argues against Bhabha's claim that essence is not central
to hybrid identities. The conversations recorded in the book reveal
the ways in which women negotiate the category of Blackness, in
what Tate calls a 'hybridity-of- the-everyday'. The book introduces
a new interpretative vocabulary to look at the ways in which
hybridity is orchestrated and fashioned, showing it to be
performative, dialogical and dependent on essentialism.
Using a Black decolonial feminist approach, this book deconstructs
'the white sambo psyche' of white European settler colonialism,
which classifies the colonised and enslaved into 'sambo': a
category of racial subjection and utter negation which is now so
normalized that we are inured to it. Drawing on voyages both real
and metaphorical to places such as Australia, South Africa,
Jamaica, the Dutch West Indies, and the UK, Decolonizing Sambo
positions itself amongst the global entanglements of white European
settler colonialism, racial capitalism and contemporary culture.
This cultural analysis analyses archival data, artefacts,
commemorative spaces, films, children's books, and sweets to show
sambo's genealogy, transculturation, fungibility, and continuation
in contemporary racialising assemblages. As we continue to live in
an era of 'samboification', this book provides scholars and
students with the materials to start thinking about sambo as an
(un)known part of colonialism and explore 'post-race' racism within
which professions of sincere love for the racialised other are an
active aspect of (post) colonial states' self-deception about being
'post-race'.
This book uses the experiences and conversations of Black British
women as a lens to examine the impact of discourses surrounding
Black beauty shame. Black beauty shame exists within racialized
societies which situate white beauty as iconic, and as a result
produce Black 'ugliness' as a counterpoint. At the same time, Black
Nationalist discourses present Black-white 'mixed race' women as
bodies out of place within the Black community. In the examples
analysed within the book, women disidentify from both the
iconicities of white beauty and the discourses of Black Nationalist
darker-skinned beauty, negating both ideals. This demonstration of
Foucaldian counter-conduct can be read as a form of disalienation
from the governmentality of Black beauty shame. This fascinating
volume will be of interest to students and scholars of Black
identity, Black beauty and discourse analysis.
In the new arena for anti-racist work in which we find ourselves,
the neo-liberal, 'post-race' university, this interdisciplinary
collection demonstrates common global political concerns about
racism in Higher Education. It highlights a range of issues
regarding students, academic staff and knowledge systems, and all
of the contributions seek to challenge the complacency of the
'post-race' present that is dominant in North-West Europe and North
America, Brazil's mythical 'racial democracy' and South Africa's
post-apartheid 'rainbow nation'. The collection makes clear that we
are not yet past the need for anti-racist institutional action
because of the continuing impact of coloniality on and in these
nations. Chapter 7 of this book is freely available as a
downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons
Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 3.0 license.
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/tandfbis/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9780367001513_oachapter7.pdf
Previous work discussing Black beauty has tended to concentrate on
Black women's search for white beauty as a consequence of
racialization. Without denying either the continuation of such
aesthetics or their enduring power, this book uncovers the cracks
in this hegemonic Black beauty. Drawing on detailed ethnographic
research amongst British women of Caribbean heritage, this volume
pursues a broad discussion of beauty within the Black diaspora
contexts of the Caribbean, the UK, the United States and Latin
America through different historical periods to the present day.
With a unique exploration of beauty, race and identity politics,
the author reveals how Black women themselves speak about,
negotiate, inhabit, work on and perform Black beauty. As such, it
will appeal not only to sociologists, but anyone working in the
fields of race, ethnicity and post-colonial thought, feminism and
the sociology of the body.
This book assesses the nature and extent of the project of
deracialisation required to counter the contemporary dynamics of
racialisation across four varieties of modernity: Sweden, South
Africa, Brazil and the UK, based on original research on each of
the four country contexts. Since racism began to be recognised or
identified as a problem, an assemblage of supra-national
initiatives have been devised in the name of combatting,
dismantling or reducing it. There has been a recent shift whereby
such supra-national bodies move toward embedding strategies against
racism within the framework of human rights and devolving such
responsibility to other bodies at a national level. The authors
bring together a team of international experts in this field, in
order to compare the priorities and effectiveness of current
strategic approaches in each national context, examining their
relationalities and connecting these cases within a joint
theoretical and methodological framework. Thus, this book
contributes to theoretical knowledge on racialisation and
deracialisation, produce a new data set on contemporary
interventions and institutions and establish new principles and
practice for national projects of deracialisation and anti-racism,
building on cross-national learning.
This handbook unravels the complexities of the global and local
entanglements of race, gender and intersectionality within racial
capitalism in times of #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, the Chilean
uprising, Anti-Muslim racism, backlash against trans and queer
politics, and global struggles against modern colonial femicide and
extractivism. Contributors chart intersectional and decolonial
perspectives on race and gender research across North America,
Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean, and South Africa, centering
theoretical understandings of how these categories are imbricated
and how they operate and mean individually and together. This book
offers new ways to think about what is absent/present and why, how
erasure works in historical and contemporary theoretical accounts
of the complexity of lived experiences of race and gender, and how,
as new issues arise, intersectionalities (re)emerge in the politics
of race and gender. This handbook will be of interest to students
and scholars across the social sciences and humanities.
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