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Power Relations in Black Lives : Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias.

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concep...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Buschendorf, Christa
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcipt Verlag, 2017.
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm))
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • Cover; Contents; Preface; Introduction. Key Concepts of Relational Sociologyas Tools of Hermeneutics; Satin-Legs Smith and a Mississippi Mother. Dissections of Habitus in Gwendolyn Brooks; Intellectual Disposition and Bodily Knowledge. Richard Wrightâ#x80;#x99;s Literary Practice; â#x80;#x9C;You have to leave home to find homeâ#x80;#x9D;. Charismatic Violence and Split Habitus in Ralph Ellisonâ#x80;#x99;s Second Unfinished Novel; (Post-Black) Bildungsroman or Novelof (Black Bourgeois) Manners? The Logic of Reproduction in Colson Whiteheadâ#x80;#x99;s Sag Harbor.
  • Â#x80;#x9C;You People Almost Had Me Hating You Because of the Color of Your Skinâ#x80;#x9D;. Symbolic Violence and Black In-Group Racism in Percival Everettâ#x80;#x99;s I Am Not Sidney PoitierBlack Womenâ#x80;#x99;s Business. Female Entrepreneurship and Economic Agency in Toni Morrisonâ#x80;#x99;s God Help the Child; â#x80;#x9C;Whatâ#x80;#x99;s the Position You Hold?â#x80;#x9D; Bourdieu and Rap Music; â#x80;#x9C;Decolorized for Popular Appealâ#x80;#x9D;. â#x80;#x98;Trueâ#x80;#x99; Stories of African American Homelessness; Understanding Ferguson. Suburban Marginality and Racialized Penality in the Age of Neoliberalism; Transformations of Oppression. The Case of Bayard Rustin.
  • Introducing Disagreement. RanciÃr̈eâ#x80;#x99;s Anti-Sociology and the Parallax of Political Subjectivity and Political Economy (of Racism)Contributors.