The Blinding Light of Race: Race and Racism in Western Society, Volume 3
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978-1-032-75799-5 (ISBN)
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Once imputed by the eugenical effects of World War II and the Civil Rights Movement’s opposition to White racism, the word ‘race’ was largely stricken from scientific writing. But biological determinism remained deeply ensconced in an institution of science that assumed the natural world to be determining, making natural science its most authoritative means. Authoritative heritability estimates and genetic correlations, though spurious, continued to imply that obvious racial and class inequalities (including their dire health effects) were natural and acceptable. White people often attempted to ‘unmark’ their racial identity and assumed that of the uniquely normal people as though an act of anti-racism (Frankenberg shows). On the contrary, it served to deny their skin color privileges while enjoying benefits of on-going structural racism as the only real, complete human beings in the room. The book uses an ethnology of anthropology to show White people’s equivocal views of ‘other’s’ equality in their formal analyses, museum collections and exhibitions, and treatment of colleagues in recent times. They remained deliberately deaf to critical African diasporic scholarship. Thus, 'Unmarking' Beyond gives an anthropological analysis of the social history of White supremacy and shows what it is like for some to confront it.
In constructing this historical and sociological counternarrative, the author provides a critical new social history that illuminates a tangled and turgid past for contemporary readers, students, and researchers with vital insights for anthropology, sociology, history, cultural studies, philosophy, and American studies.
Michael L. Blakey is a leading anthropologist at William & Mary University, whose training and productive research career (80 publications in major journals) integrates human biology, history, and culture, including critical writings on the history and philosophy of science. He is the recipient of many awards, including the President’s Award of the American Anthropological Association, the Legacy Award of the Association of Black Anthropologists, an Honorary Doctor of Science from CUNY, and the Plumeri Award.
Foreword by Johnetta B. Cole
Preface AcknowledgementsOverview of Volumes I and II
1. Unmarked Whiteness and Anti-Racial Racism at the End of the 20th Century
2. The Crime Scene
3. Race was the Surrogate for Genetics, Now Genetics is the Surrogate for Race
4. Diversity and Diffusion
5. The Circumstances Under Which I Live and Work: My Canary in the Mine Shaft
6. The Untenable Personality of Whiteness
7. Conclusions, Arrival Here and Now
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.3.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 4 Line drawings, black and white; 8 Halftones, black and white; 12 Illustrations, black and white |
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Allgemeines / Lexika | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-032-75799-X / 103275799X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-032-75799-5 / 9781032757995 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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