TY - BOOK ID - 118997498 TI - Reading Race Relationally AU - Lieber, Marlon, AU - Frankfurt Forschungszentrum Historische Geisteswissenschaften PY - 2023 SN - 9783839463468 PB - Bielefeld DB - UniCat KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General. KW - African American Literature. KW - America. KW - Colson Whitehead. KW - Literary Studies. KW - Literature. KW - Pierre Bourdieu. KW - Postcolonialism. KW - Race and Racism. KW - Racism. KW - Sociology. KW - Social theory KW - Social sciences UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:118997498 AB - The Underground Railroad, Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer-Prize-winning 2016 novel, was widely praised for articulating the violence of chattel slavery and its aftermath. In contrast, his earlier novels were repeatedly criticized for not taking »race« seriously enough. Marlon Lieber argues that critics have often relied on a substantialist understanding of »race« and treated it as a cause rather than an effect of social relations of domination. Drawing on the relational sociology of Pierre Bourdieu, he provides readings of Whitehead's first six novels and their sophisticated understanding of the relation between late capitalist social structures and processes of racial classification which durably affect the disposition of individuals to act and think. ER -