Clarissa Rile Hayward

How Americans Make Race

Stories, Institutions, Spaces

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book looks at why people keep using identities even after the stories from which they were constructed have been rejected.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 487g
• ISBN-13: 9781107043893
• ISBN-10: 1107043891
• Artikelnr.: 39684526

Autorenporträt

Clarissa Rile Hayward teaches political theory at Washington University, St Louis. The author of De-Facing Power (Cambridge, 2000) and of many articles in journals and edited volumes, she writes broadly on the themes of power and identity in the contemporary United States.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction. Comme il faut
1. Identities and stories
2. Black places
3. Ordinary stories
4. Home, sweet home
5. White fences
Conclusion: stories, institutions, and spaces
Appendix. Interview respondents and interview schedule.

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Introduction. Comme il faut; 1. Identities and stories; 2. Black places; 3. Ordinary stories; 4. Home, sweet home; 5. White fences; Conclusion: stories, institutions, and spaces; Appendix. Interview respondents and interview schedule.

Rezensionen

"For some unknown reason, social scientists focus almost obsessively on the construction of and borders between identities. They pay much less attention to the question of "so what?" - why identities matter in the public realm and in the exercise of political power. Clarissa Hayward is an expert in the ways that power is manifested and used in everyday activities, and she brings that expertise to bear in How Americans Make Race. Identities matter because they are embedded in institutions that matter, and everything from the course of American history to the course of an individual's life chances is shaped by the ways in which "who we are" becomes elided with "what we can do." This is a subtle, moving, important book." - Jennifer Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government, Harvard University