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portada Styles for Flourishing: Histories of Survival in the Racial Niche
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
304
Format
Paperback
ISBN13
9780231215305

Styles for Flourishing: Histories of Survival in the Racial Niche

Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón (Author) · Columbia University Press · Paperback

Styles for Flourishing: Histories of Survival in the Racial Niche - Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón

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Synopsis "Styles for Flourishing: Histories of Survival in the Racial Niche"

Racial experiences vary widely in everyday life and in different social contexts. They range from damaging to fulfilling, spanning discrimination, unquestioned assumptions, and political solidarity. Drawing on years of cross-cultural ethnographic research, Gabriel Alejandro Torres Colón develops an innovative theory to grasp racial experiences in their full sociocultural complexity, with vital implications for both social science and antiracist politics. This book demonstrates how people draw from their experiences to fashion "styles for flourishing"--embodied strategies for survival in racialized societies that can both reproduce and contest racial orders. In performing their styles, individuals embrace their racialized selves and communities, helping them flourish in broader social worlds. They are able to creatively reconfigure racialized existence into desires for recognition, expressions of resistance, and aspirations for alternative political orders. Torres Colón explores how styles develop within "racial niches" through nuanced considerations of a boxing gym in the U.S. Rust Belt, Afro-Puerto Rican community organizing in an ancestral mangrove forest, and Muslim political activism in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta in North Africa. Each case highlights nuanced dimensions of racial experience to question how local efforts are seen in political ideologies and governance. Bringing together humanistic, social scientific, and biological approaches with compelling ethnographic detail, this interdisciplinary book provides generative theoretical insights regarding race and critical new perspective on racial inequality in liberal democracies.

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