Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-239) and indexes.
Contents:
The concept of the stereotype. Stereotyping as gain and loss ; The classical view of stereotyping ; Stereotyping and modernity -- The dilemma of stereotyping. Pathologising prejudice ; Naturalising stereotyping ; Shortcomings in stereotyping research ; Stereotyping as social exorcism -- The concept of the other. Denying history ; Constructing the primitive ; One and the other ; Stereotypes and the other -- The politics of belonging. Symbolic boundaries ; National belonging ; National identity ; Building the nation ; Antiquity and invention -- The politics of not belonging. Methuselah vs Marconi ; Pride of race ; Populist racism ; Cartographies of unbelonging -- The politics of postcolonial critique. East by not east ; Postcolonial studies ; Decolonising the historical imagination ; Abjection and cultural analysis -- The sociology of censure. Infraction and the drive to order ; Folk devils ; Flaws in the moral panic model ; Normality and stereotypical censure -- The sociology of the stranger. The stranger and modernity ; From Simmel to Bauman ; Bringing it all back home.
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