dc.contributor.author | Louis, Brett | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2011-03-01T06:25:00Z | de |
dc.date.accessioned | 2012-08-30T04:47:42Z | |
dc.date.available | 2012-08-30T04:47:42Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2005 | de |
dc.identifier.uri | http://www.ssoar.info/ssoar/handle/document/23019 | |
dc.description.abstract | This article examines the form and effects of differentiation that surface within the artifice of racial sameness. Using contemporary debates between ‘native-born’ and ‘foreign-born’ blacks in the USA over the right to ‘African American’ identity and the socioeconomic threat posed to the former by the latter, I show how the operation of the logic of race internally within a racial group reiterates familiar effects of racialization. Drawing on Freud’s notion of the ‘narcissism of minor differences’ as a framing device, I point out that this difference/sameness relation is not simply antagonistic through an analysis of the ambiguity of Africa as posing a socioeconomic threat in the migrants it sends while also presenting the historical and symbolic basis for African American claims to cultural distinctiveness. The article builds a critique of the invention of sameness that makes difference in two key ways: first, through the representation of difference as an antithesis that affirms the racialized self characterized by sameness; and second, that this makes a political difference in the sense that this dialectic of black as self and other reifies the social problematic of its sameness/difference relation as intrinsically (intra)racial to the extent that the substantive socioeconomic causality of racial stratification and racism are obscured. | en |
dc.language | en | de |
dc.subject.other | African American; black; ethnicity; race; racism; | |
dc.title | The difference sameness makes | en |
dc.description.review | begutachtet (peer reviewed) | de |
dc.description.review | peer reviewed | en |
dc.source.journal | Ethnicities | de |
dc.source.volume | 5 | de |
dc.source.issue | 3 | de |
dc.identifier.urn | urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-230197 | de |
dc.date.modified | 2011-03-01T06:25:00Z | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | de |
dc.rights.licence | PEER Licence Agreement (applicable only to documents from PEER project) | en |
ssoar.contributor.institution | http://www.peerproject.eu/ | de |
internal.status | -1 | de |
dc.type.stock | article | de |
dc.type.document | journal article | en |
dc.type.document | Zeitschriftenartikel | de |
dc.source.pageinfo | 343-364 | |
internal.identifier.journal | 110 | de |
internal.identifier.document | 32 | |
dc.identifier.doi | https://doi.org/10.1177/1468796805054960 | de |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | en |
dc.description.pubstatus | Postprint | de |
internal.identifier.licence | 7 | |
internal.identifier.pubstatus | 2 | |
internal.identifier.review | 1 | |
internal.check.abstractlanguageharmonizer | CERTAIN | |
internal.check.languageharmonizer | CERTAIN_RETAINED | |