The Idea of Chinatown: The Power of Place and Institutional Practice in the Making of a Racial Category

Racial categories are cultural ascriptions whose construction and transmission cannot be taken for granted. I focus here on the process by which racial categories are themselves constructed; in particular, I examine the presence of place and the role of state in the making of one such category, the...

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Veröffentlicht in:Annals of the Association of American Geographers. - Blackwell Publishers, 1911. - 77(1987), 4, Seite 580-598
1. Verfasser: Anderson, Kay J. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Online-Aufsatz
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 1987
Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk:Annals of the Association of American Geographers
Schlagworte:Race Place State Ideology Representation Racial Classification Cultural Hegemony Behavioral sciences Physical sciences Political science mehr... Economics Social sciences Health sciences