Philomena Essed
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 118553 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Philomena Essed |
| PRENOMES | Philomena |
| SOBRENOME | Essed |
| ASSINATURA | ESSED P |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Amsterdam |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 30 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 331 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 26 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 7 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 9 |
Conversation avec Philomena Essed
Sociologue néerlandaise vivant aux États-Unis, fille d’immigrés de classe supérieure originaires du Suriname et féministe engagée dans le mouvement des femmes aux Pays-Bas, figure majeure des recherches néerlandaises et européennes sur les processus de racialisation et leurs fondements structurels (sociaux et historiques), Philomena Essed revient sur son parcours de chercheuse « diasporique », entre Europe et Amériques. Racialisée comme « femme d…
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
Humiliation, dehumanization and the quest for dignity
The purpose of this essay is to take consequence of intersectional paradigms and to reflect on what this can mean for racism research. Drawing from interpretative ambiguities of an everyday offensive interaction involving race, gender, and age, the question is posed: can there be an effective frame of critical thinking inclusive of but also beyond racism? Thus follows an exploration of concepts inherent to the reproduction of all forms of oppress…
Relating Worlds of Racism
Relating Worlds of Racism
This international edited collection examines how racism trajectories and manifestations in different locations relate and influence each other. The book unmasks and foregrounds the ways in which notions of European Whiteness have found form in a variety of global contexts that continue to sustain racism as an operational norm resulting in exclusion, violence, human rights violations, isolation and limited full citizenship for individuals who are…
A Companion to Gender Studies
An exploration of the intersection of race, gender and generation in African American women doing social justice work
This article examines how Black women from varying generations articulate their perceptions about race. The 183 participants, ranging in age from 21 to 69, were Black women committed to social justice work. An under‐researched area is the exploration of generational perspectives about race among Black women social activists. Utilizing an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods design, data were collected through six in‐depth personal interviews, fou…
Dutch Racism
Dutch Racism
Women social justice scholars
This article draws from the experiences of women, located in different countries, whose scholarship expresses a commitment to anti-racism and social justice. What are the challenges they face? How do they negotiate multiple commitments? Anti-racism scholars are border crossers and ethical leaders with a deep sense of care. Their experiences suggest that one does not necessarily have to engage in activism 'out there'. The very commitment to anti-r…
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
Companion to Gender Studies
Who wants to feel white?' Race, Dutch culture and contested identities
Is the concept of 'whiteness' applicable to the Netherlands (and - mainland Europe)? This article explores cultural expressions of white normativity and possible interpretations of the notion of whiteness as identity. For that purpose we combine two data sets: first white and/or Dutch normativity in political and public life and in the media are discussed, and, second, everyday experiences of racial and/or national identity among whites. The form…
Designs and (Co)Incidents
This article sketches the dominant themes that have shaped Dutch discourse, policy and research on issues related to race, ethnicity, and immigration during the past 40 years. It will be shown that the paradigmatic foundations of Dutch minority research were laid in the 1980s and that mainstream research and discourse is largely about ethnic minorities; about their migration and their degree (or lack) of economic, social and political integration…
Racisme et préférence pour l'identique
Racism and Preference for Sameness : About Cultural Cloning in Everyday Life. Over the past two decades we have come to the understanding that different forms of discrimination merge and reinforce each other. But (converging) discriminations are also indicative of normative preferences for imagined perfections consisting of a combination of such characteristics as : masculinities, whiteness, Europeanness, physical abilities, high intelligence. Th…
Refugees and the transformation of societies
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politi…
A Companion to Gender Studies
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politi…
Cloning amongst professors
This paper problematizes gender and racial sameness in higher education, in particular among the gatekeepers of academic knowledge. It seeks to re‐conceptualize discrimination against women in higher education in terms of preferences for, that is, practices sustaining imagined male homogeneity. The notion of cultural cloning is used to account for the persistence of the idealized image of the full professor as masculine, white, European
Race critical theories
Cloning Cultural Homogeneity While Talking Diversity
In this paper I use what I call the 4-D model to qualify four different approaches to ethnic integration in the Netherlands: (cultural) deficit, (cultural) differentiation, (anti) discrimination, and (managing) diversity. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, public policymakers endorsed positive action, a controversial instrument aimed at countering gender and racial-ethnic discrimination in hiring procedures. The results have been meager. Unemploymen…
Cloning cultures
Cloning is widely considered only to be a biological discourse. Few, however, have paid attention to the cultural contexts that have made cloning conceivable. The relation between the biological and cultural considerations of cloning are revealed by the anxieties conjured up by the prospects of cloning human beings. By cloning we understand the reproduction of sameness which is deeply ingrained in the organization and reproduction of culture. The…
Multi-identifications and Transformations
Diversity
Contemporary discussions of race, gender, and cultural identity often seem to presuppose an exclusively American context. Yet as Philomena Essed points out in this forcefully argued book, continuing migration has given rise to ever more diverse societies. At the same time, the erosion of traditional national identities has sparked a backlash against racial and ethnic minorities.Essed examines these problems in a series of interrelated essays, urg…
Who wants to feel white?' Race, Dutch culture and contested identities
Is the concept of 'whiteness' applicable to the Netherlands (and - mainland Europe)? This article explores cultural expressions of white normativity and possible interpretations of the notion of whiteness as identity. For that purpose we combine two data sets: first white and/or Dutch normativity in political and public life and in the media are discussed, and, second, everyday experiences of racial and/or national identity among whites. The form…
Designs and (Co)Incidents
This article sketches the dominant themes that have shaped Dutch discourse, policy and research on issues related to race, ethnicity, and immigration during the past 40 years. It will be shown that the paradigmatic foundations of Dutch minority research were laid in the 1980s and that mainstream research and discourse is largely about ethnic minorities; about their migration and their degree (or lack) of economic, social and political integration…
Cloning cultures
Cloning is widely considered only to be a biological discourse. Few, however, have paid attention to the cultural contexts that have made cloning conceivable. The relation between the biological and cultural considerations of cloning are revealed by the anxieties conjured up by the prospects of cloning human beings. By cloning we understand the reproduction of sameness which is deeply ingrained in the organization and reproduction of culture. The…
Dilemmas in leadership
The hiring of women of colour faculty is not without unwritten presuppositions. We are expected to draw from cultural experience in catering to students of colour or when it fulfils institutional needs such as bringing 'colour' to all-white committees. Yet, the normative profile of university teachers demands detachment with a focus on high output in terms of students and publications. In the light of this, commitment to social justice seems in (…
Cloning amongst professors
This paper problematizes gender and racial sameness in higher education, in particular among the gatekeepers of academic knowledge. It seeks to re‐conceptualize discrimination against women in higher education in terms of preferences for, that is, practices sustaining imagined male homogeneity. The notion of cultural cloning is used to account for the persistence of the idealized image of the full professor as masculine, white, European
Cloning Cultural Homogeneity While Talking Diversity
In this paper I use what I call the 4-D model to qualify four different approaches to ethnic integration in the Netherlands: (cultural) deficit, (cultural) differentiation, (anti) discrimination, and (managing) diversity. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, public policymakers endorsed positive action, a controversial instrument aimed at countering gender and racial-ethnic discrimination in hiring procedures. The results have been meager. Unemploymen…
Women social justice scholars
This article draws from the experiences of women, located in different countries, whose scholarship expresses a commitment to anti-racism and social justice. What are the challenges they face? How do they negotiate multiple commitments? Anti-racism scholars are border crossers and ethical leaders with a deep sense of care. Their experiences suggest that one does not necessarily have to engage in activism 'out there'. The very commitment to anti-r…
Contradictory Positions, Ambivalent Perceptions
This article addresses black neo-conservatism and the contradictory position of the black middle class in the matrix of domination systems. The empirical basis consists of an open-ended interview with an African-American business woman, an entrepreneur, about her personal success and her role in relation to the black community. The main focus of the article provides an analysis of the arguments she presents to explain problems of race, class, gen…
Knowledge and Resistance
This paper presents cross-cultural data gathered in extensive interviews with black women in the US and in the Netherlands. The main issue concerns relations between knowledge and resistance. More specifically, attention is paid to the contents and structure of black women's knowledge of racism and modes of knowledge acquisition. It is argued that different modes and political contexts of acquisition have an impact on everyday `theories' of racis…
An exploration of the intersection of race, gender and generation in African American women doing social justice work
This article examines how Black women from varying generations articulate their perceptions about race. The 183 participants, ranging in age from 21 to 69, were Black women committed to social justice work. An under‐researched area is the exploration of generational perspectives about race among Black women social activists. Utilizing an exploratory sequential mixed‐methods design, data were collected through six in‐depth personal interviews, fou…
Ethnicity and Diversity in Dutch Academia
(1999). Ethnicity and Diversity in Dutch Academia. Social Identities: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 211-225
Racisme et préférence pour l'identique
Racism and Preference for Sameness : About Cultural Cloning in Everyday Life. Over the past two decades we have come to the understanding that different forms of discrimination merge and reinforce each other. But (converging) discriminations are also indicative of normative preferences for imagined perfections consisting of a combination of such characteristics as : masculinities, whiteness, Europeanness, physical abilities, high intelligence. Th…
Multi-identifications and Transformations
Understanding Everyday Racism
Understanding Everyday Racism
PART ONE: TOWARDS AN INTEGRATION OF MACRO AND MICRO DIMENSIONS OF RACISM Racism Today The Social-political Context The Netherlands Some Notes on Contemporary Racism in the US Women and Racism Black Women with Higher Education Conceptualizing Racism as a Process Racism A Working Definition The Notion of Everyday Racism PART TWO: METHODOLOGICAL QUESTIONS Introduction Methodology within Methodology Accounts The Interviewees Interviewing Method of An…
Knowledge and Resistance
This paper presents cross-cultural data gathered in extensive interviews with black women in the US and in the Netherlands. The main issue concerns relations between knowledge and resistance. More specifically, attention is paid to the contents and structure of black women's knowledge of racism and modes of knowledge acquisition. It is argued that different modes and political contexts of acquisition have an impact on everyday `theories' of racis…
Ras, klass och kön inom svart medelklass
Nykonservatismen inom den nya svarta medelklassen tycks vara mer komplex än vad enbart teoretiserande kring strukturella samband ger vid handen. Philomena Essed visar här hur såväl liberala som mer konservativa uppfattningar kan finnas jämsides i en individs syn på ras-, klass- och könsrelationer
Understanding Everyday Racism
The Colour of Love
Contradictory Positions, Ambivalent Perceptions
This article addresses black neo-conservatism and the contradictory position of the black middle class in the matrix of domination systems. The empirical basis consists of an open-ended interview with an African-American business woman, an entrepreneur, about her personal success and her role in relation to the black community. The main focus of the article provides an analysis of the arguments she presents to explain problems of race, class, gen…
Ethnicity and Diversity in Dutch Academia
(1999). Ethnicity and Diversity in Dutch Academia. Social Identities: Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 211-225
Dilemmas in leadership
The hiring of women of colour faculty is not without unwritten presuppositions. We are expected to draw from cultural experience in catering to students of colour or when it fulfils institutional needs such as bringing 'colour' to all-white committees. Yet, the normative profile of university teachers demands detachment with a focus on high output in terms of students and publications. In the light of this, commitment to social justice seems in (…
Multi-identifications and Transformations
Race critical theories
Cloning Cultural Homogeneity While Talking Diversity
In this paper I use what I call the 4-D model to qualify four different approaches to ethnic integration in the Netherlands: (cultural) deficit, (cultural) differentiation, (anti) discrimination, and (managing) diversity. Throughout the 1980s and 1990s, public policymakers endorsed positive action, a controversial instrument aimed at countering gender and racial-ethnic discrimination in hiring procedures. The results have been meager. Unemploymen…
Cloning cultures
Cloning is widely considered only to be a biological discourse. Few, however, have paid attention to the cultural contexts that have made cloning conceivable. The relation between the biological and cultural considerations of cloning are revealed by the anxieties conjured up by the prospects of cloning human beings. By cloning we understand the reproduction of sameness which is deeply ingrained in the organization and reproduction of culture. The…
Refugees and the transformation of societies
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politi…
A Companion to Gender Studies
Refugees and the Transformation of Societies
The refusal or reception of refugees has had serious implications for the social policies and social realities of numerous countries in east and west. Exploring experiences, interpretations and practices of 'refugees,' 'the internally displaced' and 'returnees' in or emerging from societies in violent conflict, this volume challenges prevailing orthodoxies and encourages new developments in refugee studies. It also addresses the ethics and politi…
Cloning amongst professors
This paper problematizes gender and racial sameness in higher education, in particular among the gatekeepers of academic knowledge. It seeks to re‐conceptualize discrimination against women in higher education in terms of preferences for, that is, practices sustaining imagined male homogeneity. The notion of cultural cloning is used to account for the persistence of the idealized image of the full professor as masculine, white, European
Racisme et préférence pour l'identique
Racism and Preference for Sameness : About Cultural Cloning in Everyday Life. Over the past two decades we have come to the understanding that different forms of discrimination merge and reinforce each other. But (converging) discriminations are also indicative of normative preferences for imagined perfections consisting of a combination of such characteristics as : masculinities, whiteness, Europeanness, physical abilities, high intelligence. Th…
Designs and (Co)Incidents
This article sketches the dominant themes that have shaped Dutch discourse, policy and research on issues related to race, ethnicity, and immigration during the past 40 years. It will be shown that the paradigmatic foundations of Dutch minority research were laid in the 1980s and that mainstream research and discourse is largely about ethnic minorities; about their migration and their degree (or lack) of economic, social and political integration…
Companion to Gender Studies
Who wants to feel white?' Race, Dutch culture and contested identities
Is the concept of 'whiteness' applicable to the Netherlands (and - mainland Europe)? This article explores cultural expressions of white normativity and possible interpretations of the notion of whiteness as identity. For that purpose we combine two data sets: first white and/or Dutch normativity in political and public life and in the media are discussed, and, second, everyday experiences of racial and/or national identity among whites. The form…
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
Clones, Fakes and Posthumans
Women social justice scholars
This article draws from the experiences of women, located in different countries, whose scholarship expresses a commitment to anti-racism and social justice. What are the challenges they face? How do they negotiate multiple commitments? Anti-racism scholars are border crossers and ethical leaders with a deep sense of care. Their experiences suggest that one does not necessarily have to engage in activism 'out there'. The very commitment to anti-r…
Dutch Racism
Dutch Racism
Sociology (22 obras) · Gender Studies (19 obras) · Political science (18 obras) · Law (12 obras) · Psychology (11 obras) · Anthropology (10 obras) · Gender Studies (10 obras) · Epistemology (9 obras) · Racism (9 obras) · Social Psychology (7 obras)