TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2011//
TI  - Race’s Recurrence
JO  - Theory, culture and society
A1  - Rattansi, Ali
SP  - 112
EP  - 128
VL  - 28
IS  - 1
N2  - The race idea keeps recurring in different guises and yet has an intriguing ‘ever-changing sameness’. Ash Amin has provided an insightful discussion of the question in an earlier issue of this journal. I supplement his account by pointing to the ways in which the nature—culture puzzle identified by Lévi-Strauss creates continuing spaces and seductions for the race idea. I offer an account of the perils of using supposedly ‘natural’ human attributes, as in versions of cognitive anthropology, to explain racism, without completely discounting the idea of human universals. I also explore how ‘race’ retains its continuing hold by intertwining with themes of class, sexuality and nation. I provide an interpretation of racist identities and explain why my account offers both greater pessimism and more optimism than Amin’s more uniform ‘ontological pessimism’.<p /> 
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SN  - 0263-2764
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0263276410387623
ID  - ref1
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