A01=Howard Winant
Author_Howard Winant
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Category=JHBA
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Product details
- ISBN 9780465043415
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 06 Jun 2002
- Publisher: Basic Books
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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The World Is a Ghetto compares post-World War II racial dynamics in four countries or regions: the United States, South Africa, Brazil, and the European Union. Howard Winant argues that race remains crucial both for contemporary politics and for concepts of identity and culture. By investigating how economic development, labour processes, the ideals of democracy and popular sovereignty, patterns of social stratification, and even concepts of social and individual identity have been affected by the role race has played in the modern global democracy, Winant provides a new critique of racial exclusion and inequality.An invaluable tool for understanding the role of race in contemporary global politics, The World Is a Ghetto provides a sobering history of the real successes of movements for racial justice and democracy both in the U.S. and globally.
Howard Winant is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
