Preliminary questions<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nChapter 9 discusses issues of \u2018race\u2019 and racism. As John Storey points out, there is only one human race, so when we divide people into groups of \u2018race\u2019, we engage not in biological distinctions, but in cultural and historical ones. Appreciating how \u2018difference\u2019 is made to signify is fundamental to understanding the work referred to here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In this chapter, the historical emergence of racism is discussed, followed by an account of Edward Said\u2019s work on Orientalism. \u2018Whiteness\u2019, as a cultural concept, is also problematized in its privileged position as ethnically \u2018unmarked\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In deconstructing \u2018race\u2019 and racism, John Storey points to the ethical imperative of Cultural Studies to help combat inequality. You might like to consider how the rise in Islamophobia, together with moral panics around immigration and national identity, is linked to racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Do you agree that academic disciplines have a duty to interrogate and counter discriminatory power differentials in society?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n
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After you read: Important ideas <\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\nChapter 9 outlines the cultural history of racial representation. You can now revise it with Quizzes 9.1 and 9.2, revisiting important concepts, phenomena and ideas responsible for reversing the racial representational discrimination and regime(s).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Choose between true<\/em> or false<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n