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Simianization

Author : Wulf D. Hund,Charles W. Mills,Silvia Sebastiani
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Racism
ISBN : 9783643907165

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Simianization by Wulf D. Hund,Charles W. Mills,Silvia Sebastiani Pdf

Contents: Charles W. Mills: Bestial Inferiority. Locating Simianization within Racism - Wulf D. Hund: Racist King Kong Fantasies. From Shakespeare's Monster to Stalin's Ape-Man - David Livingstone Smith, Ioana Panaitiu: Aping the Human Essence. Simianization as Dehumanization - Silvia Sebastiani: Challenging Boundaries. Apes and Savages in Enlightenment - Stefanie Affeldt: Exterminating the Brute. Sexism and Racism in "King Kong" - Susan C. Townsend: The Yellow Monkey. Simianizing the Japanese - Steve Garner: The Simianization of the Irish. Racial Apeing and its Contexts - Kimberly Barsamian Kahn, Phillip Atiba Goff, Jean M. McMahon: Intersections of Prejudice and Dehumanization. Charting a Research Trajectory (Series:?Racism Analysis - Series B: Yearbooks, Vol. 6) [Subject: Sociology, Race Studies]

Outside the Pale

Author : Elsie B. Michie
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781501724510

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Outside the Pale by Elsie B. Michie Pdf

Elsie B. Michie here provides insightful readings of novels by Mary Shelley, Emily and Charlotte Brontë, Elizabeth Gaskell, and George Eliot, writers who confronted definitions of femininity which denied them full participation in literary culture. Exploring a series of abhorrent images, Michie traces the links between the Victorian definition of femininity and other forms of cultural exclusion such as race and class distinctions.

Marx and Haiti

Author : Wulf D. Hund
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2024-05-14
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9783643915184

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Marx and Haiti by Wulf D. Hund Pdf

Although modern racism was fully developed by their time, Marx (and Engels) did not engage in a theoretical discussion of its essential features. This analytical silence is investigated in the chapter Marx and Haiti: Notes on a Blank Space. At the same time, the chapters of this volume demonstrate that and why the principles of a historical materialist analysis of society present links for a critical theory of racism. In the chapter Dehumanization and Social Death: Fundamentals of Racism, this is shown concerning the various historical shapes of racisms caused by different forms of class relations. The chapter Racismflq: Birth of a Concept connects the conceptual history of racism with the socio-historical conflicts of differently affected social groups. Finally, the chapter A Historical Materialist Theory of Racism: Introduction addresses basic elements of a Marxist analysis of racism. It elucidates the necessity of a theoretical conjunction of classist and racist discrimination as well as the historical differentiation of racisms.

Engaging the Moving Image

Author : Noel Carroll
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780300133073

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Noël Carroll, a brilliant and provocative philosopher of film, has gathered in this book eighteen of his most recent essays on cinema and television—what Carroll calls “moving images.” The essays discuss topics in philosophy, film theory, and film criticism. Drawing on concepts from cognitive psychology and analytic philosophy, Carroll examines a wide range of fascinating topics. These include film attention, the emotional address of the moving image, film and racism, the nature and epistemology of documentary film, the moral status of television, the concept of film style, the foundations of film evaluation, the film theory of Siegfried Kracauer, the ideology of the professional western, and films by Sergei Eisenstein and Yvonne Rainer. Carroll also assesses the state of contemporary film theory and speculates on its prospects. The book continues many of the themes of Carroll’s earlier work Theorizing the Moving Image and develops them in new directions. A general introduction by George Wilson situates Carroll’s essays in relation to his view of moving-image studies.

Beauty Matters

Author : Peg Zeglin Brand
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2000-05-22
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0253213754

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Beauty Matters by Peg Zeglin Brand Pdf

Beauty has captured human interest since before Plato, but how, why, and to whom does beauty matter in today's world? Whose standard of beauty motivates African Americans to straighten their hair? What inspires beauty queens to measure up as flawless objects for the male gaze? Why does a French performance artist use cosmetic surgery to remake her face into a composite of the master painters' version of beauty? How does beauty culture perceive the disabled body? Is the constant effort to remain young and thin, often at considerable economic and emotional expense, ethically justifiable? Provocative essays by an international group of scholars discuss aesthetics in aesthetics, the arts, the tools of fashion, the materials of decoration, and the big business of beautification—beauty matters—to reveal the ways gender, race, and sexual orientation have informed the concept of beauty and driven us to become more beautiful. Here, Kant rubs shoulders with Calvin Klein. Beauty Matters draws from visual art, dance, cultural history, and literary and feminist theory to explore the values and politics of beauty. Various philosophical perspectives on ethics and aesthetics emerge from this penetrating book to determine and reveal that beauty is never disinterested.

Why We Love and Exploit Animals

Author : Kristof Dhont,Gordon Hodson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2019-11-08
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781351181426

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Why We Love and Exploit Animals by Kristof Dhont,Gordon Hodson Pdf

This unique book brings together research and theorizing on human-animal relations, animal advocacy, and the factors underlying exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Why do we both love and exploit animals? Assembling some of the world’s leading academics and with insights and experiences gleaned from those on the front lines of animal advocacy, this pioneering collection breaks new ground, synthesizing scientific perspectives and empirical findings. The authors show the complexities and paradoxes in human-animal relations and reveal the factors shaping compassionate versus exploitative attitudes and behaviors towards animals. Exploring topical issues such as meat consumption, intensive farming, speciesism, and effective animal advocacy, this book demonstrates how we both value and devalue animals, how we can address animal suffering, and how our thinking about animals is connected to our thinking about human intergroup relations and the dehumanization of human groups. This is essential reading for students, scholars, and professionals in the social and behavioral sciences interested in human-animal relations, and will also strongly appeal to members of animal rights organizations, animal rights advocates, policy makers, and charity workers.

The Eternal Paddy

Author : Michael de Nie
Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2004-07
Category : History
ISBN : 0299186644

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All about Skin features twenty-seven stories by women writers of color whose short fiction has earned them a range of honors, including John Simon Guggenheim Fellowships, the New York Public Library Young Lions Fiction Award, the Flannery O'Connor Award, and inclusion in the Best American Short Stories and O. Henry anthologies.The prose in this multicultural anthology addresses such themes as racial prejudice, media portrayal of beauty, and family relationships and spans genres from the comic and the surreal to startling realism. It demonstrates the power and range of some of the most exciting women writing short fiction today. The stories are by American writers Aracelis Gonzalez Asendorf, Jacqueline Bishop, Glendaliz Camacho, Learkana Chong, Jennine Capo Crucet, Ramola D., Patricia Engel, Amina Gautier, Manjula Menon, ZZ Packer, Princess Joy L. Perry, Toni Margarita Plummer, Emily Raboteau, Ivelisse Rodriguez, Metta Sama, Joshunda Sanders, Renee Simms, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan, Hope Wabuke, and Ashley Young; Nigerian writers Unoma Azuah and Chinelo Okparanta; and Chinese writer Xu Xi. Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the American Association of School Librarians Best Books for General Audiences, selected by the Public Library Reviewers "

The Souls of White Jokes

Author : Raúl Pérez
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022-07-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781503632349

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A rigorous study of the social meaning and consequences of racist humor, and a damning argument for when the joke is not just a joke. Having a "good" sense of humor generally means being able to take a joke without getting offended—laughing even at a taboo thought or at another's expense. The insinuation is that laughter eases social tension and creates solidarity in an overly politicized social world. But do the stakes change when the jokes are racist? In The Souls of White Jokes Raúl Pérez argues that we must genuinely confront this unsettling question in order to fully understand the persistence of anti-black racism and white supremacy in American society today. W.E.B. Du Bois's prescient essay "The Souls of White Folk" was one of the first to theorize whiteness as a social and political construct based on a feeling of superiority over racialized others—a kind of racial contempt. Pérez extends this theory to the study of humor, connecting theories of racial formation to parallel ideas about humor stemming from laughter at another's misfortune. Critically synthesizing scholarship on race, humor, and emotions, he uncovers a key function of humor as a tool for producing racial alienation, dehumanization, exclusion, and even violence. Pérez tracks this use of humor from blackface minstrelsy to contemporary contexts, including police culture, politics, and far-right extremists. Rather than being harmless fun, this humor plays a central role in reinforcing and mobilizing racist ideology and power under the guise of amusement. The Souls of White Jokes exposes this malicious side of humor, while also revealing a new facet of racism today. Though it can be comforting to imagine racism as coming from racial hatred and anger, the terrifying reality is that it is tied up in seemingly benign, even joyful, everyday interactions as well— and for racism to be eradicated we must face this truth.

Animals in Narrative Film and Television

Author : Karin Beeler,Stan Beeler
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781666904826

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Animals in Narrative Film and Television by Karin Beeler,Stan Beeler Pdf

This book explores fictional representations of animals in animated and live-action film and television and examines the way these representations intersect with culture, race, gender, class, disability, and health issues. Contributors analyze the narrative functions of familiar animals as well as fantastic and hybrid creatures.

Semicolonial Joyce

Author : Derek Attridge,Marjorie Elizabeth Howes
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521666287

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Semicolonial Joyce by Derek Attridge,Marjorie Elizabeth Howes Pdf

A landmark collection of essays examining Joyce's relationship with Irish colonialism and nationalism.

Survival of the Friendliest

Author : Brian Hare,Vanessa Woods
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780399590665

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Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare,Vanessa Woods Pdf

A powerful, counterintuitive new theory of human nature arguing that our evolutionary success depends on our ability to be friendly--from a pair of trailblazing scientists and New York Times bestselling authors. For most of the approximately 200,000 years that our species has existed, we shared the planet with at least four other types of humans. They were smart, they were strong, and they were inventive. Neanderthals even had the capacity for spoken language. But, one by one, our hominid relatives went extinct. Why did we thrive? In delightfully conversational prose and based on years of his own original research, Brian Hare, professor in the department of evolutionary anthropology and the Center for Cognitive Neuroscience at Duke University, and his wife Vanessa Woods, a research scientist and award-winning journalist, offer a powerful, elegant new theory called "self-domestication" which suggests that we have succeeded not because we were the smartest or strongest but because we are the friendliest. This explanation flies in the face of conventional wisdom. Since Charles Darwin wrote about "evolutionary fitness," scientists have confused fitness with strength, tactical brilliance, and aggression. But what helped us innovate where other primates did not is our knack for coordinating with and listening to others. We can find common cause and identity with both neighbors and strangers if we see them as "one of us." This ability makes us geniuses at cooperation and innovation and is responsible for all the glories of culture and technology in human history. But this gift for friendliness comes at cost. If we perceive that someone is not "one of us," we are capable of unplugging them from our mental network. Where there would have been empathy and compassion, there is nothing, making us both the most tolerant and the most merciless species on the planet. To counteract the rise of tribalism in all aspects of modern life, Hare and Woods argue, we need to expand our empathy and friendliness to include people who aren't obviously like ourselves. Brian Hare's groundbreaking research was developed in close collaboration with Richard Wrangham and Michael Tomasello, giants in the field of cognitive evolution. Survival of the Friendliest explains both our evolutionary success and our potential for cruelty in one stroke and sheds new light onto everything from genocide and structural inequality to art and innovation.

Post Present Future

Author : Farieda Nazier
Publisher : Farieda Nazier
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780620856096

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Post Present Future by Farieda Nazier Pdf

A review catalogue of the critical intervention entitled 'Post Present Future' held at the Apartheid Museum in 2019. The exhibition and essays explore how colonial and apartheid continuities, are omitted in the meta-narratives of contemporaneous South African museums.

Uncommodified Blackness

Author : Mandisi Majavu
Publisher : Springer
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319513256

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Uncommodified Blackness by Mandisi Majavu Pdf

This book is a study of the lived experience of African men in Australia and New Zealand. The author employs a relational account of racism which foregrounds how the colonial shaped the contemporary, with the settler states of contemporary Australia and New Zealand having been moulded by their colonial histories. Uncommodified Blackness examines the changing racial conditions in Australia and New Zealand, inspired by the view that as racial conditions change globally, prevailing racial modalities in these two countries must be reexamined and theory must be developed or revised as appropriate. Students and scholars across a range of social science disciplines will find this book of interest, particularly those with an interest in refugees, immigration, race and masculinity.

The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922

Author : Joseph Valente
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252090325

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The Myth of Manliness in Irish National Culture, 1880-1922 by Joseph Valente Pdf

This study aims to supply the first contextually precise account of the male gender anxieties and ambivalences haunting the culture of Irish nationalism in the period between the Act of Union and the founding of the Irish Free State. To this end, Joseph Valente focuses upon the Victorian ethos of manliness or manhood, the specific moral and political logic of which proved crucial to both the translation of British rule into British hegemony and the expression of Irish rebellion as Irish psychomachia. The influential operation of this ideological construct is traced through a wide variety of contexts, including the career of Ireland's dominant Parliamentary leader, Charles Stewart Parnell; the institutions of Irish Revivalism--cultural, educational, journalistic, and literary; the writings of both canonical authors (Yeats, Synge, Gregory, and Joyce) and subcanonical authors (James Stephens, Patrick Pearse, Lennox Robinson); and major political movements of the time, including suffragism, Sinn Fein, Na Fianna E Éireann, and the Volunteers. The construct of manliness remains very much alive today, underpinning the neo-imperialist marriage of ruthless aggression and the sanctities of duty, honor, and sacrifice. Mapping its earlier colonial and postcolonial formations can help us to understand its continuing geopolitical appeal and danger.

Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 431 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004440654

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Like an Animal: Critical Animal Studies Approaches to Borders, Displacement, and Othering by Anonim Pdf

Like an Animal features a number of relevant critical animal studies scholars providing theoretical and empirical accounts on the intersection of border politics, displacement and nonhuman animals.