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Author Guillaumin, Colette, author.

Title Racism, sexism, power, and ideology / Colette Guillaumin.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995.

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Description 1 online resource (x, 288 pages).
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Series Critical studies in racism and migration
Critical studies in racism and migration.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction:(Re)constructing the categories of 'race' and 'sex': the work of a precursor / Danielle Juteau-Lee -- 1. The specific characteristics of racist ideology (1972) -- 2. The idea of race and its elevation to autonomous scientific and legal status (1980) -- 3. 'I know it's not nice, but ... ': the changing face of 'race' (1981) -- 4. 'Wildcat' immigration (1984) -- 5. The rapacious hands of destiny (1984) -- 6. Race and Nature: the system of marks (1977) -- 7. Women and theories about society: the effects on theory of the anger of the oppressed (1981) -- 8. Sexism, a right-wing constant of any discourse: a theoretical note (1988) -- 9. The practice of power and belief in Nature: Part I The appropriation of women (1978) -- 10. The practice of power and belief in Nature: Part II The naturalist discourse (1978) -- 11. The question of difference (1979) -- 12. Herrings and tigers: animal behaviour and human society (1978) -- 13. Nature, history and 'materialism' (1981).
Summary Guillaumin tackles the links between the daily materiality of social relationships and mental conventions. Materiality and ideology (in the sense of 'perception of things') are two sides of the same coin: those who are objects in social relations are so in both thought and reality.
Racism, sexism, power and ideology argues that there is nothing 'obvious' or 'natural' about our ideas of sex and race; and their historical evolution is one of the key concerns of this collection of essays. Colette Guillaumin contends that the slow crystallization of ideas on human 'races' over the last few centuries can be traced and understood through the study of signs and their systems. But clearly, race and sex are more than just symbolic phenomena. They are the hard facts of society: to be a man or woman, black or white are matters of social reality. To be a member of a particular race or sex brings with it different opportunities, rights and constraints. The study of semiotic systems must therefore be complemented by an examination of such material constraints, of how they operate and shape our life experience.
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Subject Racism.
Racism.
Sexism.
Sexism.
Power (Social sciences)
Power (Social sciences)
Indexed Term Racism
Sex discrimination
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Subject Racism.
Sexism.
Other Form: Print version: Guillaumin, Colette. Racism, sexism, power, and ideology. London ; New York : Routledge, 1995 (DLC) 94012149 (OCoLC)30318147
ISBN 0203304454 (electronic book)
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0415093856 (paperback)
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