Overview

This collection brings together a dozen academics from diverse racial, ethnic, and gender perspectives to explore race in a postmodern way. Postmodernism and Race articulates the differences between modern and postmodern discourses. It then offers a third alternative based on comparative civilizational studies, which suggest a multidimensional approach to power, identity, and social order. Also drawing on Western and non-Western interpretations, the discursive nature of race as a cultural product and semiotic marker is explored. The collection seeks to achieve three tasks: To present a uniquely kynical approach to truth-saying presented by modernists and sophisticated so-called postmodernists (with their faith in lingualism); to explore what modernism is in the context of race; and to investigate the concept of race in an aperspectival way, including the language-gaming of racism. The obsession with racial measurement and its correlation with measures of intelligence is explored, as is the mythology of racial homogeneity in Japan. Also examined are the discursive nature of racial reality and power, and racial identity in Africa. All those concerned with issues of race and/or postmodern civilization, as well as those interested in operational definition, scalar phenomena, relativism, and postmodern views of truth, justice, and power, will find this a provocative collection.

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Author:   Eric Kramer
Publisher:   Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Imprint:   Praeger Publishers Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.20cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.539kg
ISBN:  

9780275953676

ISBN 10:   027595367
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   19 February 1997
Recommended Age:   From 7 to 17 years
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

"The Spiders of Truth by Eric Mark Kramer The Importance of Social Imagery for Race Relations by John W. Murphy A Brief Archaeology of Intelligence by Eric Mark Kramer and Lonnie Johnson, Jr. Dialogue and Race by Algis Mickunas Symbolic Violence and Race by Karen A. Callaghan What Is a ""Japanese""? Culture, Diversity, and Social Harmony in Japan by Eric Mark Kramer and Richiko Ikeda Community Control, Base Communities, and Democracy by Woo Sik Chung and John T. Pardeck Racist Ontology, Inferiorization, and Assimilation by Jung Min Choi Analyzing Racial Ideology: Post-1980 America by George Wilson and Jomills Braddock Neoconservatism and Freedom in Postmodern North American Culture by Norman N. Morra Selected Bibliography Name Index Subject Index"

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ERIC MARK KRAMER is Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Oklahoma. Among his earlier publications is Consciousness and Culture: An Introduction to the Thought of Jean Gebser (Greenwood, 1992).

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