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Power Relations in Black Lives - Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias

Power Relations in Black Lives - Reading African American Literature and Culture with Bourdieu and Elias

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Relational sociology argues that power imbalances cause human conflicts and shape physical and symbolic struggles between groups. This volume highlights power relations in the African American experience through black literature, culture, rap music, images of homelessness, and political activism.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 180 pages
Publication date: 08 December 2021
Publisher: Transcript Verlag

According to relational sociology, power imbalances are at the root of human conflicts and consequently shape the physical and symbolic struggles between interdependent groups or individuals. This volume highlights the role of power relations in the African American experience by applying key concepts of Pierre Bourdieu and Norbert Elias to black literature and culture. The authors offer new readings of power asymmetries as represented in works of canonical and contemporary black writers (Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Toni Morrison, Percival Everett, Colson Whitehead), rap music (e.g., Jay Z), images of black homelessness, and figurations of political activism (civil rights activist Bayard Rustin,

Weight: 394g
Dimension: 148 x 224 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9783837636604

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