Race as Seriality: A Response to David Benatar and Zimitri Erasmus

Autor/in	Gouws, A.
Titel	Race as Seriality: A Response to David Benatar and Zimitri Erasmus
Quelle	In: South African Journal of Higher Education, 24 (2010) 2, S.313-317 (5 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1011-3487
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; College Students; Race; Racial Identification; College Admission; Higher Education; Universities; Affirmative Action; Student Diversity; Postsecondary Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Collegestudent; Rasse; Abstammung; Hochschulzugang; Hochschulzulassung; Zulassung; Hochschulbildung; Hochschulsystem; Hochschulwesen; University; Universität; Post-secondary education; Tertiäre Bildung
Abstract	In this article I draw on the Sarte's notion of "seriality" as theorized in his book "Dialectic of Reason" and as interpreted by Iris Marion Young. I argue that seriality can be used to escape the false essentialism and identity politics of race as a category for admissions to universities. A series is a social collective whose members are unified passively by the objects around which their action is oriented, while a group is a collective where members recognize themselves and others pursuing the same goal (often leading to identity politics). Race as a series designates structural relations to material objects produced by prior history and material necessities of past practices, but disconnected from a racial identity. (Contains 2 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10