Stigma and Culture - Last-Place Anxiety in Black America

Name: Stigma and Culture - Last-Place Anxiety in Black America
Brand: The University of Chicago Press
SKU: 9780226297736
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Autor: J. Lorand Matory

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"Stigma and Culture "by J. Lorand Matory is a courageous auto-ethnographic examination of the stigma...

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Autor

J. Lorand Matory

Limbă

engleză

Legare

Carte - Carte broșată

Publicat

2015

Pagini

560

EAN

9780226297736

ISBN

022629773X

Enbook ID

09374461

Editura

The University of Chicago Press

Greutate

842

Dimensiuni

228 x 153 x 32

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"Stigma and Culture "by J. Lorand Matory is a courageous auto-ethnographic examination of the stigma attached to color. The work is a major contribution to a new scholarly genre, a form of anthropological theory-building in memoir form. Its varied gestures include: paeans to past mentors; rich recollections of childhood; ethnographic analyses of various cultural institutions, especially Howard University; re-conceptualizations of Caribbean/African significances vis-a-vis African Americans in the United States, and more. Such a wide-ranging effort is precisely what recommends this book--and what makes it like few other books in Anthropology or Africana Studies. Matory argues that several ironies highlight class-based (seemingly post-racial) social formations while also reinforcing racialization and challenging such racial logics from within. He shows how educational institutions are spaces for the paradoxical production of both elitist/post-ethnic class identities and for the fostering of would-be ethnic particularity and difference--all at the same time. Providing a nuanced window into variously situated "Black" groups in the United States (including the seemingly exotic "little races" or "tri-racial isolates" such as Louisiana Creoles and the oft-discussed Gullah/Geechee), this book argues that the longstanding scholarly assumption about social isolation as a causal mechanism for the cultural legitimacy of such groups is absolutely wrong. Instead, Matory shows that all of these groups are quite decidedly produced in and through contact with their ostensible others. Ethnic purities and particularities are the byproducts of anxieties and efforts birthed from the contact that such purities are meant to deny. This is one of the book's most powerful interventions, and Matory provides compelling arguments for how so many get this wrong. Ultimately "Stigma and Culture" explains not just the continuing significance of race and ethnicity as seen in various American contexts, but also makes the case for how new and old ethnic differences are enabled and produced in the contemporary moment.

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