Racism / Albert Memmi ; foreword by Kwame Anthony Appiah ; translated and with an introduction by Steve Martinot.
By: Memmi, Albert
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Contributor(s): Appiah, Anthony | Martinot, Steve.
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BookPublisher: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2000Description: xxxiv, 242 p. ; 19 cm.ISBN: 0816631646 ; 0816631654 .Subject(s): Racism | DiscriminationDDC classification: 305.8 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 305.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085732 | ||
| General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 305.8 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00085731 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Albert Memmi's controversial statements about racism and his call to each of us to devote ourselves to its eradication--futile though this effort will be--are straightforward and lucid, yet also powerful and universal. In this remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of contemporary life, Memmi investigates racism as social pathology--a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another. By turns historical, sociological, and autobiographical, Racism moves beyond individual prejudice to engage the broader questions of collective behavior and social responsibility. Book jacket.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-242).
Description -- Definition -- Treatment.
Translation of: Racisme.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- Foreword (p. VII)
- List of Works (p. XII)
- Introduction: the Double Consciousness (p. XV)
- Description (p. 1)
- Definition (p. 89)
- Treatment (p. 123)
- Appendix A An Attempt at a Definition (p. 169)
- Appendix B What is Racism? (p. 183)
- Appendix C The Relativity of Privilege (p. 197)
- Appendix D The Mythic Portrait of the Colonized (p. 205)
- Notes (p. 217)