American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender
American Anatomies: Theorizing Race and Gender
复制标题
美国解剖学：种族和性别理论
DOI：
--
复制
发表时间：
1996
期刊：
影响因子：
--
通讯作者：
Robyn Wiegman
中科院分区：
文献类型：
--
作者：
Robyn Wiegman
在这一精彩的战斗研究中，罗宾·韦格曼挑战了当代关于种族和性别的陈词滥调，这种说法本身就是一种需要质疑的陈词滥调。作为她所谓的“女权主义不忠”的一部分，她对当前关于多元文化主义和“差异”的辩论持批评甚至怀疑的态度，同时揭露了自种族隔离制度消亡以来，白色种族至上主义被重新配置的许多方式。最重要的是，她审视了世纪来将英美人描述为种族主义衰落的英雄代理人的叙事的虚伪性和矛盾性。无论是评估《汤姆叔叔的小屋》、私刑、莱斯利·菲德勒对美国小说的种族主义描绘、60年代的黑人权力运动、80年代的伙伴电影，还是理查德·赖特和托尼·莫里森的小说，韦格曼都坚定不移地面对种族主义和反种族主义议程的悖论，包括那些从女权主义角度提出的问题。
《美国解剖学》从长远来看：从文艺复兴开始，是什么认识论框架允许西方将种族和性别差异系统化，并在这些差异的基础上建立社会等级制度？随着时间的推移，这些认识论体系是如何改变的？我们现在在哪？怀着对政治的热情和智慧的勇气，韦格曼分析了种族和性别偏见的生物和文化基础，以重振身份政治的讨论。她的结论是，出于非常不同的原因，身份证明对少数群体和多数群体都是危险的。
In this brilliantly combative study, Robyn Wiegman challenges contemporary cliches about race and gender, a formulation that is itself a cliche in need of questioning. As part of what she calls her "feminist disloyalty," she turns a critical, even skeptical, eye on current debates about multiculturalism and "difference" while simultaneously exposing the many ways in which white racial supremacy has been reconfigured since the institutional demise of segregation. Most of all, she examines the hypocrisy and contradictoriness of over a century of narratives that posit Anglo-Americans as heroic agents of racism’s decline. Whether assessing Uncle Tom’s Cabin , lynching, Leslie Fiedler’s racialist mapping of the American novel, the Black Power movement of the 60s, 80s buddy films, or the novels of Richard Wright and Toni Morrison, Wiegman unflinchingly confronts the paradoxes of both racism and antiracist agendas, including those advanced from a feminist perspective.
American Anatomies takes the long view: What epistemological frameworks allowed the West, from the Renaissance forward, to schematize racial and gender differences and to create social hierarchies based on these differences? How have those epistemological regimes changed—and not changed—over time? Where are we now? With painstaking care, political passion, and intellectual daring, Wiegman analyzes the biological and cultural bases of racial and gender bias in order to reinvigorate the discussion of identity politics. She concludes that, for very different reasons, identity proves to be dangerous to minority and majority alike.