Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning

706 Pages·1993·1.71 MB·English

by  David Theo Goldberg

Racist Culture : Philosophy and the Politics
title:
of Meaning
author: Goldberg, David Theo.
publisher: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
isbn10 | asin: 0631180788
print isbn13: 9780631180784
ebook isbn13: 9780631227526
language: English
subject Racism.
publication date: 1993
lcc: HT1521.G55 1993eb
ddc: 305.8
subject: Racism.
Page i
Racist Culture
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For A., who so often saved me from myself;
and for G., that he may recognize and resist.
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Racist Culture
Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning
David Theo Goldberg
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Goldberg, David Theo.
Goldberg, David Theo.
Racist culture : philosophy and the politics of meaning / DavidTheo Goldberg
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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1. Racism. I. Title.
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Contents
Preface viii
1 1
Introduction: Racial Subjects
2 14
Modernity, Race, and Morality
Morality and Subjectivity 15
Race, Morality, and Subjectivity 21
3 41
Racialized Discourse
The Discourse of Race and Racism 41
The Social Conjuncture of Racialized Discourse 43
The Grammar of Racialized Discourse 46
The Preconceptual Elements of Racialized Discourse 48
Discursive Power and the Body of Racist Expression 52
The Racist Subject 57
4 61
The Masks of Race
Natural Kind, Social Creation 62
Pedigree and Population 63
Breeding Population and Gene Pools 65
Subject of Promotion, or Object of Analysis? 67
Race As Class 69
Cultural Race 70
Ethnorace 74
Race As Nation 78
Politicizing Race; Racializing Politics 80
Racial Ontology 84
5 90
Racist Exclusions
Personal Prejudice and Social Structure 92
Dominant Definitions 93
Irrationality 94
Biology and Hierarchy 94
Ideology 95
Domination 95
Page vi
Racisms 97
Context of Definition 97
Context of Explanation 103
Context of Rationalization 111
6 117
Racisms and Rationalities
The Logic(s) of Racism(s) 121
Basic Errors 123
Conceptual Errors and Category Mistakes 123
Overgeneralizations and Facts of the Matter 125
Logical Errors 129
Attitude-Behavior Inconsistency 129
Contradictions in Beliefs 130
Racisms, Prudence, and Morality 133
The Imprudence of Racism 133
The Immorality of Racist Ends 139
7 148
Racial Knowledge
Racial Knowledge and Power 149
Knowledge and the Production of Otherness 149
Race, Social Science, and the State 152
Conceptual Orders 155
The Primitive 155
The Third World 163
The Underclass 168
A Dying Racism? 175
8 185
Polluting the Body Politic: Race and Urban Location
The Terms of Spatial Marginalization 187
Colonizing City Space: Producing Urban Peripheries 187
The Significance of the Slum 190
Apartheid's Urban Areas 192
Pragmatics of Segregated Space 193
Projects and Periphractic Space 197
Social Pathologies and City Projects 197
Degeneration and Gentrification 200
The Power of Place 202