Color Struck: Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective: Julius O. Adekunle: University Press of America

Color Struck

Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

Color Struck

Essays on Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective

Description

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is a compilation of expositions on race and ethnicity, written from multiple disciplinary approaches including history, sociology, women's studies, and anthropology. This book is organized around a topical, chronological framework and is divided into three sections, beginning with the earliest times to the contemporary world. The term "race" has nearly become synonymous with the word "ethnicity," given the most recent findings in the study of human genetics that have led to the mapping of human DNA. Color Struck attempts to answer questions and provide scholarly insight into issues related to race and ethnicity.

Chapter 1 Preface
Chapter 2 Acknowledgements
Chapter 3 Introduction
Chapter 4 Part 1: The First Complex Societies to Modern Times
Part 5 1. Race, Science, and Human Origins in Africa
Part 6 2. Race and the Rise of the Swahili Culture
Part 7 3. 'Caste'-[ing] Gender: Caste and Patriarchy in Ancient Hindu Jurisprudence
Part 8 4. Comparative Race and Slavery in Islam, Judaism, and Christianity: Texts, Practices, and Current Implications
Part 9 5. The Dark Craven Jew: Race and Religion in Medieval Europe
Part 10 6. Growth of the Atlantic Slave Trade: Racial Slavery in the New World
Part 11 7. The Yellow Lady: Mulatto Women in the Suriname Plantocracy
Chapter 12 Part 2: Race and Mixed Race in the Americas
Part 13 8. Critical Mixed Race Studies: New Approaches to Resistance and Social Justice
Part 14 9. Militant Multiraciality: Rejecting Race and Rejecting the Conveniences of Complicity
Part 15 10. Whiteness Reconstructed: Multiracial Identity as a Category of "New White"
Part 16 11. Conversations in Black and White: The Limitations of Binary Thinking About Race in America
Part 17 12. The Necessity of a Multiracial Category in a Race-Conscious Society
Part 18 13. Mixed Race Terminologies in the Americas: Globalizing the Creole in the Twenty First Century
Part 19 14. Examining the Regional and Multigenerational Context of Creole and American Indian Identity
Part 20 15. Race, Class, and Power: The Politics of Multiraciality in Brazil
Part 21 16. All Mixed Up: A New Racial Commonsense in Global Perspective
Chapter 22 Part 3: Race, Ethnicity, and Conflict in Contemporary Societies
Part 23 17. Black No More: African Americans and the 'New' Race Science
Part 24 18. Contesting Identities of Color: African Female Immigrants in the Americas
Part 25 19. Burdened Intersections: Black Women and Race, Gender, and Class
Part 26 20. Ethnic Conflicts in the Middle East: A Comparative Analysis of Communal Violence within the Matrix of the Colonial Legacy, Globalization, and Global Stability
Part 27 21. Ethnic Identity in China: The Politics of Cultural Difference
Part 28 22. Shangri-la has Forsaken Us: China's Ethnic Minorities, Identity, and Government Repression
Part 29 23. The Russian/Chechen Conflict and It's Consequences
Chapter 30 Contributors
Chapter 31 Index

Product details

Published	Feb 24 2010
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	516
ISBN	9780761850649
Imprint	University Press of America
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Color Struck: Essays of Race and Ethnicity in Global Perspective is an essential and welcome contribution to the fields of global studies, cultural studies, and the social sciences. It is very relevant to ongoing debates, dialogues, and discourses about identity and the centrality of race in all these discussions. While some of the essays deploy theoretical (and technical) terminologies, the whole work is quite comprehensible - especially for the uninitiated reader curious about the power of race in our modern consciousness.

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