Description - Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning by David Theo Goldberg
"Racist Culture" is a synthesis of recent work on racism. It 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 racisms 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", "the primitive". This normalization of racisms as reflected in the West mirrors South Africa in its use and conception of space. The book concludes with an extended argument for a pragmatic, anti-racist practice. It should be of interest to students on courses in cultural studies, sociology, philosophy and literature.
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