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IN MEDIAS RACE (AND CLASS)

Post-Jim Crow Ethnographies of Black Middleclassdom

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 June 2010

John L. Jackson Jr.*
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology and the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania
*
Professor John L. Jackson, Jr., Annenberg School for Communication, 3620 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104. E-mail: [email protected]

Extract

“Race is the modality in which class is lived” (Hall et al., 1978, p. 394). That's how Stuart Hall evocatively put it, emphasizing the extent to which class relations can actually and substantively “function as race relations” for working class Black Brits (and others). He was arguing, amongst other things, against the neatly reified distinctions scholars traditionally policed between class-based analyses and racial ones.

Type
State of the Discourse
Copyright
Copyright © W.E.B. Du Bois Institute for African and African American Research 2010

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