Overview
Provides an opportunity for scholars and students to expeditiously examine the related phenomena and patterns that facilitate racism across global communities
Includes fresh interpretations and analyses of the urgent global conditions of racism, devalued citizenship, and human rights infractions
Contains chapters from a varied mix of well-established authors and new voices with original ideas.
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Racism and the Normativity of European Whiteness
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Racism and the Dehumanisation of the Imagined Black
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About this book
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are not racialised as White.
The chapters in this book specifically implicate European Whiteness – whether attempting to reflect, negate, or obtain it – in social structures that facilitate and normalise racism. The authors interrogate the dehumanisation of Blackness, arguing that dehumanisation enables the continuation of racism in White dominated societies. As such, the book explores instances of dehumanisation across different contexts, highlighting that although the forms may be locally specific, the outcomes are continually negative for those racialised as Black.The volume is refreshingly extensive in its analyses of racism beyond Europe and the United States, including contributions from Africa, South America and Australia, and illuminates previously unexplored manifestations of racism across the globe.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Karen Farquharson is Professor of Sociology and Head of the School of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Melbourne
Kathryn Pillay is Lecturer in the Department of Sociology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)
Elisa Joy White is Associate Professor of African American and African Studies at University of California at Davis
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Relating Worlds of Racism
Book Subtitle: Dehumanisation, Belonging, and the Normativity of European Whiteness
Editors: Philomena Essed, Karen Farquharson, Kathryn Pillay, Elisa Joy White
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78990-3
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-78989-7Published: 31 August 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-07697-9Published: 15 January 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-78990-3Published: 20 August 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIII, 463
Number of Illustrations: 3 b/w illustrations
Topics: Sociology of Racism, Social Structure, Social Inequality, Sociology of Culture