Race's Recurrence
Reflections on Amin’s ‘The Remainders of Race’
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2352345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ali Rattansi (City, University of London, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 28 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 112-128 |
| Publication date | 2011-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Theory Culture & Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0263-2764 • E-ISSN: 1460-3616 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0263276410387623 |
| OpenAlex | W2329889207 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 22 |
The race idea keeps recurring in different guises and yet has an intriguing 'ever-changing sameness'. Ash Amin has provided an insightful discussion of the question in an earlier issue of this journal. I supplement his account by pointing to the ways in which the nature-culture puzzle identified by Lévi-Strauss creates continuing spaces and seductions for the race idea. I offer an account of the perils of using supposedly 'natural' human attributes, as in versions of cognitive anthropology, to explain racism, without completely discounting the idea of human universals. I also explore how 'race' retains its continuing hold by intertwining with themes of class, sexuality and nation. I provide an interpretation of racist identities and explain why my account offers both greater pessimism and more optimism than Amin's more uniform 'ontological pessimism
Class (philosophy · Epistemology · Human sexuality · Interpretation (philosophy · Linguistics · Natural (archaeology · Optimism · Pessimism · Problem of universals · Race (biology · Racism · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
How Modernity Forgets
The Multiculturalism Backlash
Racism
Fear of Small Numbers
Nationalism and Sexuality
Multiculturalism
Stereotyping
Asian Perceptions of Nature
Race and the Education of Desire
Race in the Making
Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality
Multicultural Odysseys
The Nick of Time
Ethnicity and the Multicultural City
Race and Gender
The Conceptual Politics of Race
The Remainders of Race
Biology and Social Science
Race', Religion and Riots
Ethnocentrism and Xenophobia
Ethnicity as cognition
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |