Critical Phenomenology of Intergroup Life

Race Relations in the Social World

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

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This book is dedicated to a critical analysis of race relations and inequality through the prism of Schutzian social phenomenology, which focuses on the world of intersubjectivity and the complex of meanings that orient the conduct of individuals and groups. The phenomenological approach provides a more intimate look at how the societal imposition of negative racial meanings on racialized persons crucially determines the construction of the minority subjectivity as essential otherness, thus becoming a pivotal support of race-based inequality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2020-12-04
Mått165 x 241 x 25 mm
Vikt581 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor262
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498577687

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Sociologi inom Samhälle och politik
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Introduction: The Idea of a Post-Racial WorldChapter 1: The Problem of Race in the Modern WorldChapter 2: The Study of Racial and Ethnic RelationsChapter 3:The Foundations of Alfred Schutz’s Social PhenomenologyChapter 4: The Because-Motive and the Constitution of the SelfChapter 5: The Racial Other as Schutzian StrangerChapter 6: Racism and Social AlienationChapter 7: Phenomenology and the Discourse of PowerConclusionReferences

With this book, Professor Camara provides fresh insights into the topical theme of race relations. He uses Schutz’s phenomenological social psychology and its focus on meaning to elucidate the construction of self and identity. His subtle analysis reveals how self and identity emerge from the internalization of social meanings assigned to situations, events, and persons. In racially-binary societies such as the U.S., these consist of many racial meanings, definitions, and taxonomies which are taken for granted but prove harmful to the racialized subjectivities. This explains the perpetuation of the otherness of racial minorities in spite of the structural changes and improvements of minority-group life, and reveals the political relevance of the Schutzian approach.