Reading Race in Africa and the Middle East

This article discusses the temporal and geographic expansion of racial frameworks in historical and social scientific scholarship in Africa and the Middle East. After discussing the important distinction made by the sociologist Loïc Wacquant between what he calls “folk” and analytical notions of rac...

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Main Author: Bruce S. Hall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Ledizioni 2020-05-01
Series:Antropologia
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Online Access:https://www.ledijournals.com/ojs/index.php/antropologia/article/view/1623
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Summary:This article discusses the temporal and geographic expansion of racial frameworks in historical and social scientific scholarship in Africa and the Middle East. After discussing the important distinction made by the sociologist Loïc Wacquant between what he calls “folk” and analytical notions of race, the article then argues that race is an appropriate analytic model for understanding some of the internal dynamics within the societies of these regions. Examples of recent scholarship on the regions which uses an analytic model of race are then critically explored.
ISSN:2281-4043
2420-8469