Force Of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Force Of Prejudice: On Racism and Its Doubles
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Pierre-Andre Taguieff
SeriesContradictions of Modernity
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:424
Dimensions(mm): Height 229,Width 149
ISBN/Barcode 9780816623730
ClassificationsDewey:305.8
Audience
General
Undergraduate

Publishing Details

Publisher University of Minnesota Press
Imprint University of Minnesota Press
Publication Date 23 August 2001
Publication Country United States

Description

Can humanity escape segregating behavior or master the tendency to exclusion? Where does the force of prejudice come from? How might one conceive the philosophical foundations of an effective antiracism? Pursuing these questions, Pierre-Andre Taguieff puts forward a powerful thesis: that racism has evolved from an argument about races, naturalizing inequality between "biologically" defined groups on the basis of fear of the other, to an argument about cultures, naturalizing historical differences and justifying exclusion. Correspondingly, he shows how antiracism must adopt the strategy that fits the variety of racism it opposes. Looking at racial and racist theories one by one and then at their antiracist counterparts, Taguieff traces an intellectual genealogy of differentialist and inegalitarian ways of thinking. Already viewed as an essential work of reference in France, The Force of Prejudice is an invaluable tool for identifying and understanding both racism and its antidote in our day.