Race Nation Class
Race Nation Class Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? How can it be related to class…
Specifikacia Race Nation Class
Race Nation Class
Forty years after the defeat of Nazism, and twenty years after the great wave of decolonization, how is it that racism remains a growing phenomenon? How can it be related to class divisions and to the contradictions of the nation-state? What are the special characteristics of contemporary racism?
Each brings to the debate the fruits of over two decades of analytical work, greatly inspired, respectively, by Louis Althusser and Fernand Braudel. And how far, in turn, does racism today compel us to rethink the relationship between class struggles and nationalism?This book attempts to answer these fundamental questions through a remarkable dialogue between the French philosopher Etienne Balibar and the American historian and sociologist Immanuel Wallerstein. Both authors challenge the commonly held notion of racism as a continuation of, or throwback to, the xenophobias of past societies