TY - BOOK ID - 85643033 TI - How Americans make race PY - 2013 SN - 1107425700 110735823X 1107043891 1107619580 9781107619586 9781107358232 9781107043893 PB - Cambridge Cambridge University Press DB - UniCat KW - Blacks KW - Whites KW - Race awareness KW - Communities KW - Community KW - Social groups KW - Awareness KW - Ethnopsychology KW - Ethnic attitudes KW - White people KW - White persons KW - Ethnology KW - Caucasian race KW - Negroes KW - Race identity KW - History. KW - United States KW - Race relations KW - Black persons KW - Black people KW - Blacks - Race identity - United States - History KW - Whites - Race identity - United States - History KW - Race awareness - United States - History KW - Communities - United States - History KW - United States - Race relations - History UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85643033 AB - How do people produce and reproduce identities? In How Americans Make Race, 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 analyses of the development of racialized identities and spaces in the twentieth-century United States, and also on life-narratives collected from people who live in racialized urban and suburban spaces, Hayward shows how the institutionalization and objectification of racial identity-stories enables their practical reproduction, lending them resilience in the face of challenge and critique. ER -