Race, colour and the process of racialization :: new perspectives from group analysis, psychoanalysis, and sociology /

Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are...

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Main Author: Dalal, Farhad
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hove [England] ; New York : Brunner-Routledge, 2002.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are programmed to hate those different to us by evolutionary and developmental mechanisms. This book argues against this line, proposing an alternative drawing on insights from diverse disciplines including anthropology, social psychology and linguistics, to give power-relations a critical explanato.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 251 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 230-237) and index.
ISBN:9781134945429
1134945426
1299613608
9781299613607
9780203768679
0203768671

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