How Americans Make Race Stories, Institutions, Spaces

Name: How Americans Make Race Stories, Institutions, Spaces
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ISBN: 9781107619586

ISBN-10: 1107619580

ISBN-13: 9781107619586

Edition: 2013

Authors: Clarissa Rile Hayward

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How do people produce and reproduce identities? In Stories and Spaces, Clarissa Rile Hayward challenges what is sometimes called the "narrative identity thesis": the idea that people produce and reproduce identities as stories. Identities have greater staying power than one would expect them to have if they were purely and simply narrative constructions, she argues, because people institutionalize identity-stories, building them into laws, rules, and other institutions that give social actors incentives to perform their identities well, and because they objectify identity-stories, building them into material forms that actors experience with their bodies. Drawing on in-depth historical…

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List price: $33.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 10/31/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 226
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.90" long x 0.79" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English



Introduction: Comme il faut



Identities and stories



Black places



Ordinary stories



Home, sweet home



White fences


Conclusion: stories, institutions, and spaces


Appendix: Interview respondents and interview schedule