{"id":126,"date":"2024-03-26T11:15:13","date_gmt":"2024-03-26T11:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/culturaltheory\/?post_type=content&p=126"},"modified":"2024-04-03T11:12:23","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T11:12:23","slug":"chapter-9-race-racism-and-representation","status":"publish","type":"content","link":"https:\/\/staging.routledgelearning.com\/culturaltheory\/chapter-resources\/chapter-9-race-racism-and-representation\/","title":{"rendered":"Chapter 9 – \u2018Race’, racism and representation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
\n
\n
\n\n
\n
\n\tHome<\/a>\n<\/span>\/<\/span>\n\tChapter Resources<\/a>\n<\/span>\/<\/span>\n\tChapter 9 \u2013 \u2018Race\u2019, racism and representation\n<\/span><\/div>\n\n

Chapter 9 – \u2018Race’, racism and representation<\/h1>\n\n\n

In this chapter I shall examine the concept of \u2018race\u2019 and the historical development of racism in England. I shall then explore a particular regime of racial representation, Edward Said’s analysis of Orientalism. I shall use Hollywood’s account of America’s war in Vietnam, and its potential impact on recruitment for the first Gulf War as an example of Orientalism in popular culture. The chapter will conclude with a section on \u2018whiteness\u2019 and a discussion of cultural studies and anti-racism and Black Lives Matter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<\/div>\n <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n

\n
\n
\n\n
\n
\n
\n

Before you read <\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Warm-up<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Watch Aisha Thomas\u2019 TED Talk on racial representation [link<\/a>]. How does it approach and analyse the importance of racial equality?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

Preliminary questions<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 9 discusses issues of \u2018race\u2019 and racism. As John Storey points out, there is only one human race, so when we divide people into groups of \u2018race\u2019, we engage not in biological distinctions, but in cultural and historical ones. Appreciating how \u2018difference\u2019 is made to signify is fundamental to understanding the work referred to here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this chapter, the historical emergence of racism is discussed, followed by an account of Edward Said\u2019s work on Orientalism. \u2018Whiteness\u2019, as a cultural concept, is also problematized in its privileged position as ethnically \u2018unmarked\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In deconstructing \u2018race\u2019 and racism, John Storey points to the ethical imperative of Cultural Studies to help combat inequality. You might like to consider how the rise in Islamophobia, together with moral panics around immigration and national identity, is linked to racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Do you agree that academic disciplines have a duty to interrogate and counter discriminatory power differentials in society?<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

<\/div>\n\n\n\n
\n

After you read: Important ideas <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Chapter 9 outlines the cultural history of racial representation. You can now revise it with Quizzes 9.1 and 9.2, revisiting important concepts, phenomena and ideas responsible for reversing the racial representational discrimination and regime(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\n

Quiz 9.1<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Choose between true<\/em> or false<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n