Race, Class and Power - Hardcover

Kuper, Leo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 020201133X ISBN 13: 9780202011332

Publisher: Granite Impex Ltd, 1988

Synopsis

Bool on race, class, and power

About this title

About the Author

Leo Kuper was professor of sociology and director of the African Studies Center at the University of California, Los Angeles. A South African by birth, he was one of the first writers on genocide as well as other aspects of African studies and urban sociology. His major book, Genocide (Penguin, 1981), remains in print. The Leo Kuper Foundation is a non-governmental organization dedicated to the eradication of genocide through research, advice, and education. It was created in Washington, DC in 1994 following the death of Leo Kuper, with the aim of improving measures to prevent genocide. The main area of work for the past five years has been in support of the creation of an International Criminal Court. 

Review

“Kuper’s book is a first rate scholarly contribution to the understanding of the many aspects of racism.”

—Journal of Peace Research

“This book is offered as a challenge and alternative to the (simplified) Marxist vies that racial conflict can be explained by the class struggle, and as a rebuttal to the increasingly common assumption that violence is the only answer to the racial and tribal conflicts in Africa. Both these concerns are, of course, timely and important. Leo Kuper, a distinguished Africanist, answers them with a neo-Durkheimian approach to racially plural societies. The essays reprinted in the present volume represent some of the best of Kuper’s recent work.”

—Sharon Stichter, Contemporary Sociology

“Eight of the twelve pieces have been published before, but the weight of Leo Kuper’s reputation in political sociology and the burgeoning general interest in racism and ethnicity justify their appearance in a single book. . . . Professor Kuper’s detailed scholarship will be irresistible.”

—Sandra Wallman, RAIN

“Kruper’s analysis has set an impressive example.”

—Heribert Adam, American Journal of Sociology

“Kruper analyzes the history, mechanisms, and dangers of characterizing various racial groups. . . . [H]is most important contribution lies in his brilliant challenge to Marx’s class theory, and his development of alternative propositions based on the all-encompassing significance of the racial factor in certain plural societies. This set of alternative propositions will set the tone and standard of research in this area for some time to come. His work is a reasoned critique of contemporary theories of revolution and societal change.”

—Theophilus Olatunde Odetola, The Journal of Modern African Studies

About this edition

• Publisher: Granite Impex Ltd
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 020201133X
• ISBN 13: 9780202011332
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1