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  • Foucault, Bakhtin, Ethnomethodology: Accounting for Hybridity in Talk-in-Interaction

    Foucault, Bakhtin, Ethnomethodology: Accounting for Hybridity in Talk-in-Interaction Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research Volume 8, Number 2, Article 10 May 2007 18 pages Shirley Anne Tate, Senior Lecturer and Director of Studies Centre for Interdisciplinary Gender Studies University of Leeds Theorising hybridity within Postcolonial Studies is often done at a level which…

  • Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian

    Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian Purdue University Press 1994-06-01 248 pages 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN 10: 1557530513; ISBN 13: 9781557530516 eBook ISBN 10: 1612490948; ISBN 13: 9781612490946 José Raimundo Maia Neto, Professor of the Philosophy Federal University of Minas Gerais Machado de Assis, the Brazilian Pyrrhonian examines the towering figure of nineteenth century…

  • The Political Ontology of Race

    The Political Ontology of Race Polity 2011-10-17 DOI: 10.1057/pol.2011.15 Michael Rabinder James, Associate Professor of Political Science Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania   Race theory is dominated by two camps. Eliminativists rely on a biological ontology, which contends that the concept of race must be biologically grounded, in order to repudiate the very term, on grounds…

  • Le métissage dans l’œuvre indochinoise de Marguerite Duras

    Le métissage dans l’œuvre indochinoise de Marguerite Duras McGill University, Montreal 2006 106 pages Elisabeth Desaulniers Mémoire soumis à l’Université McGill en vue de l’obtention du grade de Maître ès arts (MA) en langue et littérature françaises This dissertation focuses on the issue of hybridity in Marguerite Duras’ corpus of Indochinese texts, as well as…

  • Black Skin, White Masks

    Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon’s, and “Black Skin, White Masks” represents some of his most important work.

  • Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities

    Toward a Cleaner White(ness): New Racial Identities The Philosophical Forum Volume 36, Issue 3 (Fall 2005) pages 243–277 DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9191.2005.00203.x David Ingram, Professor of Philosophy Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois The essay critically examines some arguments advanced by Henry Giroux that ‘whiteness’ can be appropriated within pedagogical settings as a positive force in combating racism. I…

  • Visualizing a Critical Mixed-Race Theory

    This paper argues that the visually mixed-race person has a certain direct ability to challenge the binary and its racist logic. Furthermore, this paper goes on to offer a unique interpretation of where power for working against a racially oppressive system lies within critical mixed-race theory.

  • Race and Class in Political Science

    Race and Class in Political Science Michigan Journal of Race and Law Volume 11, Issue 1 (Fall 2005) pages 99-114 Jennifer L. Hochschild, Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor of Government and Professor of African and African American Studies Harvard University As a discipline, political science tends to have a split personality on the issue of whether…

  • The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire

    These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the ‘the end(s) of race’, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation…

  • Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians

    Black Skin, White Skulls: The Nineteenth Century Debate over the Racial Identity of the Ancient Egyptians Parallax Volume 13, Number 2 (2007) pages 6-20 DOI: 10.1080/13534640701267123 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Not so long ago, the question ol the racial identity of the Ancient Egyptians passed beyond the narrow…