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Author |
: Martha Menchaca |
Publisher |
: University of Texas Press |
Total Pages |
: 561 |
Release |
: 2002-01-15 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780292778481 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0292778481 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (81 Downloads) |
Synopsis Recovering History, Constructing Race by : Martha Menchaca
“An unprecedented tour de force . . . [A] sweeping historical overview and interpretation of the racial formation and racial history of Mexican Americans.” —Antonia I. Castañeda, Associate Professor of History, St. Mary’s University Winner, A Choice Outstanding Academic Book The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative action and other assistance programs for ethnic minorities. Asserting the centrality of race in Mexican American history, Martha Menchaca here offers the first interpretive racial history of Mexican Americans, focusing on racial foundations and race relations from preHispanic times to the present. Menchaca uses the concept of racialization to describe the process through which Spanish, Mexican, and U.S. authorities constructed racial status hierarchies that marginalized Mexicans of color and restricted their rights of land ownership. She traces this process from the Spanish colonial period and the introduction of slavery through racial laws affecting Mexican Americans into the late twentieth-century. This re-viewing of familiar history through the lens of race recovers Blacks as important historical actors, links Indians and the mission system in the Southwest to the Mexican American present, and reveals the legal and illegal means by which Mexican Americans lost their land grants. “Martha Menchaca has begun an intellectual insurrection by challenging the pristine aboriginal origins of Mexican Americans as historically inaccurate . . . Menchaca revisits the process of racial formation in the northern part of Greater Mexico from the Spanish conquest to the present.” —Hispanic American Historical Review
Author |
: Dvora Yanow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 272 |
Release |
: 2015-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317473930 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317473930 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (30 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America by : Dvora Yanow
What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms "race" and "ethnicity"? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state data collection agencies use these terms without explicit attention, and thereby create categories of American ethnicity for political purposes. Davora Yanow argues that "race" and "ethnicity" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically-grounded variables, and do not accurately represent the real world. She joins the growing critique of the unreflective use of "race" and "ethnicity" in American policymaking through an exploration of how these terms are used in everyday practices. Her book is filled with current examples and analyses from a wealth of social institutions: health care, education, criminal justice, and government at all levels. The questions she raises for society and public policy are endless. Yanow maintains that these issues must be addressed explicitly, publicly, and nationally if we are to make our policy and administrative institutions operate more effectively.
Author |
: Nadine E. Dolby |
Publisher |
: State University of New York Press |
Total Pages |
: 176 |
Release |
: 2001-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780791490044 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0791490041 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Race by : Nadine E. Dolby
As apartheid crumbled in South Africa, racial identity was thrown into question. Based on a year-long ethnographic study of a multiracial high school in Durban, this book explores how youth make meaning of the still powerful, yet changing, idea of race. In a world saturated with media images and global commodities, fashion and music become charged, polarized racial identifiers. As youth engage with this world, race simultaneously persists and falters, providing us with a glimpse into the future of race both within South Africa and throughout urban youth cultures worldwide.
Author |
: Lawrence A. Hirschfeld |
Publisher |
: MIT Press |
Total Pages |
: 250 |
Release |
: 1996 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0262581728 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780262581721 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis Race in the Making by : Lawrence A. Hirschfeld
Race in the Making provides a new understanding of how people conceptualize social categories and shows why this knowledge is so readily recruited to create and maintain systems of unequal power. Hirschfeld argues that knowledge of race is not derived from observations of physical difference nor does it develop in the same way as knowledge of other social categories. Instead, his central claim is that racial thinking is the product of a special-purpose cognitive competence for understanding and representing human kinds. The book also challenges the conventional wisdom that race is purely a social construction by demonstrating that a common set of abstract principles underlies all systems of racial thinking, whatever other historical and cultural specificities may be associated with them. Starting from the commonplace observation that race is a category of both power and the mind, Race in the Making directly tackles this issue. Through a sustained exploration of continuity and change in the child's notion of race and across historical variations in the race concept, Hirschfeld shows that a singular commonsense theory about human kinds constrains the way racial thinking changes, whether in historical time or during childhood. After surveying the literature on the development of a cultural psychology of race, Hirschfeld presents original studies that examine children's (and occasionally adults') representations of race. He sketches how a jointly cultural and psychological approach to race might proceed, showing how this approach yields new insights into the emergence and elaboration of racial thinking.
Author |
: Dvora Yanow |
Publisher |
: Routledge |
Total Pages |
: 245 |
Release |
: 2015-02-18 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781317473923 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1317473922 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (23 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Race and Ethnicity in America by : Dvora Yanow
What do we mean in the U.S. today when we use the terms "race" and "ethnicity"? What do we mean, and what do we understand, when we use the five standard race-ethnic categories: White, Black, Asian, Native American, and Hispanic? Most federal and state data collection agencies use these terms without explicit attention, and thereby create categories of American ethnicity for political purposes. Davora Yanow argues that "race" and "ethnicity" are socially constructed concepts, not objective, scientifically-grounded variables, and do not accurately represent the real world. She joins the growing critique of the unreflective use of "race" and "ethnicity" in American policymaking through an exploration of how these terms are used in everyday practices. Her book is filled with current examples and analyses from a wealth of social institutions: health care, education, criminal justice, and government at all levels. The questions she raises for society and public policy are endless. Yanow maintains that these issues must be addressed explicitly, publicly, and nationally if we are to make our policy and administrative institutions operate more effectively.
Author |
: Tracy Teslow |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2014-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781107011731 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1107011736 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Race by : Tracy Teslow
This book explores how physical anthropologists struggled to understand variation in bodies and cultures in the twentieth century, how they represented race to professional and lay publics, and how their efforts contributed to an American formulation of race that has remained rooted in both bodies and cultures, as well as heredity and society.
Author |
: L. Sansone |
Publisher |
: Springer |
Total Pages |
: 257 |
Release |
: 2003-08-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781403982346 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1403982341 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (46 Downloads) |
Synopsis Blackness Without Ethnicity by : L. Sansone
Blackness Without Ethnicity draws on fifteen years of his research in Bahia, Rio Suriname, and Amsterdam. Sansone uses his findings to explore the very different ways that race and ethnicity are constructed in Brazil and the rest of Latin America. He compares these Latin American conceptions of race to dominate notions of race that are defined by a black-white polarity and clearly identifiable ethnicities, formulations he sees as highly influenced by the US and to a lesser degree Western Europe. Sansone argues that understanding more complex and ambiguous notions of culture and identity will expand the international discourse on race and move it away from American dominated notions that are not adequate to describe racial difference in other countries (and also in the countries where the notions originated). He also explores the effects of globalization on constructions of race.
Author |
: Ian Haney Lopez |
Publisher |
: NYU Press |
Total Pages |
: 285 |
Release |
: 2006-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780814736944 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0814736947 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Synopsis White by Law by : Ian Haney Lopez
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Author |
: Nadine E. Dolby |
Publisher |
: SUNY Press |
Total Pages |
: 172 |
Release |
: 2001-08-30 |
ISBN-10 |
: 0791450821 |
ISBN-13 |
: 9780791450826 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (21 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Race by : Nadine E. Dolby
For modern urban South African youth, the concept of "race" persists and falters.
Author |
: Tracy Teslow |
Publisher |
: Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages |
: 415 |
Release |
: 2014-07-21 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781139952231 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1139952234 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (31 Downloads) |
Synopsis Constructing Race by : Tracy Teslow
Constructing Race helps unravel the complicated and intertwined history of race and science in America. Tracy Teslow explores how physical anthropologists in the twentieth century struggled to understand the complexity of human physical and cultural variation, and how their theories were disseminated to the public through art, museum exhibitions, books, and pamphlets. In their attempts to explain the history and nature of human peoples, anthropologists persistently saw both race and culture as critical components. This is at odds with a broadly accepted account that suggests racial science was fully rejected by scientists and the public following World War II. This book offers a corrective, showing that both race and culture informed how anthropologists and the public understood human variation from 1900 through the decades following the war. The book offers new insights into the work of Franz Boas, Ruth Benedict, and Ashley Montagu, as well as less well-known figures, including Harry Shapiro, Gene Weltfish, and Henry Field.