Smith, A. (2015) Rethinking the 'everyday' in 'ethnicity and everyday life'. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 38(7), pp. 1137-1151. (doi: 10.1080/01419870.2014.987307)
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Abstract
While ‘ethnicity and everyday life’ is a familiar collocation, sociologists concerned with racism and ethnicity have not engaged very much with the extensive body of social theory that takes the ‘everyday’ as its central problematic. In this essay, I consider some of the ways in which the sociology of the everyday might be of use to those concerned with investigating ethnicity and racism. For its part, however, the sociology of the everyday has tended to be remarkably blind to the role played by racism and racialization in the modern world. It is thus no less crucial to consider how the experiences of racialized groups might help us rethink influential accounts of the everyday. To this end, I provide a discussion of pioneering texts by C. L. R. James and W. E. B. du Bois, both of whom were driven by their reflections on racism and resistance to recognize the everyday not as an unremarked context, but as, precisely, a problematic one.
Item Type: | Articles |
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Status: | Published |
Refereed: | Yes |
Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: | Smith, Professor Andrew |
Authors: | Smith, A. |
College/School: | College of Social Sciences > School of Social and Political Sciences > Sociology Anthropology and Applied Social Sciences |
Journal Name: | Ethnic and Racial Studies |
Publisher: | Taylor and Francis |
ISSN: | 0141-9870 |
ISSN (Online): | 1466-4356 |
Copyright Holders: | Copyright © 2014 The Author |
First Published: | First published in Ethnic and Racial Studies 38(7):1137-1151 |
Publisher Policy: | Reproduced under a Creative Commons License |
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