Race, Colour And The Processes Of Racialization Av Farhad (Institute Of Group Analysis Uk) Dalal

Is racial conflict determined by biology or society?<BR>So many conflicts appear to be caused by racial and ethnic differences; for example, the cities of Britain and America are regularly affected by race riots. It is argued by socio-biologists and some schools of psychoanalysis that our instincts are programmed to hate those different to us by evolutionary and developmental mechanisms. This book argues against this line, proposing an alternative drawing on insights from diverse disciplines including anthropology, social psychology and linguistics, to give power-relations a critical explanatory role in the generation of hatreds. Farhad Dalal argues that people differentiate between races in order to make a distinction between the ''haves'' and ''must-not-haves'', and that this process is cognitive, emotional and political rather than biological. Examining the subject over the past thousand years, <EM>Race, Colour and the Processes of Racialisation</EM> covers:<BR>* psychoanalytic and