Race in the Culture Wars
In: Religions; Volume 14; Issue 6; Pages: 721, 2023
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Like culture war, race has many meanings. It can refer to objective essence, or characteristics that are inherited through genes, blood, or mystical spirits. Conversely, race is conceptualized as a historically changing social construction, a concept whose references and attributes vary according to present needs. In this article, I employ both conceptualizations through two illustrative examples. The first is race and racism in the US, where culture wars are fundamentally racialized. The second is the Troubles, a thirty-year period of violence (1960–1998) in Northern Ireland, a culture war turned into open war, where variants of race and racism were a determining factor. In the latter example, culture war turned into civil war, while, in the former example, extremists hope for the same. In the concluding sections, I identify the steps in a process that turned culture war into civil war, as it has great relevance to the American case.
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Race in the Culture Wars
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Autor/in / Beteiligte Person: | Eyerman, Ronald |
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Zeitschrift: | Religions; Volume 14; Issue 6; Pages: 721, 2023 |
Veröffentlichung: | Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2023 |
Medientyp: | academicJournal |
DOI: | 10.3390/rel14060721 |
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