Race and the Senses

The Felt Politics of Racial Embodiment
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-350-08753-8
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 198 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 233 mm, Gewicht: 530 g

Reihe: Sensory Studies

In Race and the Senses, Sachi Sekimoto and Christopher Brown explore the sensorial and phenomenological materiality of race as it is felt and sensed by the racialized subjects. Situating the lived body as an active, affective, and sensing participant in racialized realities, they argue that race is not simply marked on our bodies, but rather felt and registered through our senses. They illuminate the sensorial landscape of racialized world by combining the scholarship in sensory studies, phenomenology, and intercultural communication. Each chapter elaborates on the felt bodily sensations of race, racism, and racialization that illuminate how somatic labor plays a significant role in the construction of racialized relations of sensing. Their thought-provoking theorizing about the relationship between race and the senses include race as a sensory assemblage, the phenomenology of the racialized face and tongue, kinesthetic feelings of blackness, as well as the possibility of cross-racial empathy. Race is not merely socially constructed, but multisensorially assembled, engaged, and experienced. Grounded in the authors’ experiences, one as a Japanese woman living in the USA, and the other as an African American man from Chicago, Race and the Senses is a book about how we feel the racialized world into being.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Sekimoto, Sachi

Brown, Christopher

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Kultur-, Wissenschafts- & Technologiepolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturpolitik, Kulturmanagement

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: Feeling Race1.The Visceral is Political: Race as Sensory Assemblage2.Transnational Asian Embodiment: On the Strange Feeling of Racialization3.Sensing in Motion: The Kinesthetic Feelings of Race4.A Phenomenology of the Racialized Tongue: Embodiment, Language, and the Bodies that Speak5.Sensing Empathy in Cross-racial Interactions 6.Conclusion: Pedagogy of the Sensuous Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sachi Sekimoto is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato in USA. Christopher Brown is Associate Professor and Chair in the Department of Communication Studies at Minnesota State University, Mankato in USA.