Past Is not Dead: Facts, Fictions, and Enduring Racial Stereotypes - Tapa blanda

Pred, Allan

 
9780816644063: Past Is not Dead: Facts, Fictions, and Enduring Racial Stereotypes
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ISBN 10: 0816644063 ISBN 13: 9780816644063
Editorial: University of Minnesota Press, 2004

Sinopsis

A study of the genealogy and perpetuation of stereotyping

Through one figure-Badin, an eighteenth-century Afro-Caribbean slave given to the Swedish royal court-Allan Pred shows how stereotypes endure through the repeated confusion of facts and fiction, providing a highly original perspective on the perpetuation of racializing stereotypes in the West.

In the first of two interlocking montages inspired by Walter Benjamin, the book focuses on Badin, who died in Stockholm in 1822, and representations of his life that appeared from the 1840s through the 1990s. In the second montage, Pred brings the late nineteenth century and the present into play, shifting to urban sites where racialized stereotyping is on public display, including a museum that has exhibited the bodily remains of the African male.

Intriguing for its insight into the workings of race and immigration on the national imagination of a European nation-but with implications and ramifications far beyond that specific example-The Past Is Not Dead is a bold inquiry into both the collective memory and the amnesia of those who stereotype versus the personal remembering and forgetting of the stereotyped.

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Acerca del autor

Allan Pred is professor of geography at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of numerous books, most recently Even in Sweden: Racisms, Racialized Spaces and the Popular Geographical Imagination and Recognizing European Modernities: A Montage of the Present.

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Editorial
University of Minnesota Press
Año de publicación
2004
Idioma
Inglés
ISBN 10 
0816644063
ISBN 13 
9780816644063
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Número de páginas
304
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