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Race and Class Distinctions Within Black Communities

by Paul C. Mocombe, Carol Tomlin, Cecile Wright

BlacksRace relationsRace identitySocial classesStructuralismSOCIAL SCIENCE / Black Studies (Global)SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / GeneralSOCIAL SCIENCE / Social Classes

"This book offers both a philosophical and sociological model for understanding the constitution of identity in general, and black social identity in particular, without reverting to either a social or racial deterministic view of identity construction. Using a variant of structuration theory (phenomenological structuralism) this work, against contemporary postmodern and post-structural theories, seeks to offer a dialectical understanding of the constitution of black American and British life within the class division and social relations of production of the global capitalist world-system, while accounting for black social agency. "--

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