Philomena Essed

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Philomena Essed (Amsterdam, 1984)

Philomena Johanna Maria Essed (* 1955 in Utrecht ) is a professor of critical race, gender and leadership theory at Antioch University in Yellow Springs .

Career

Essed is the daughter of Surinamese parents. Her father Max Essed was a pediatrician. She spent half of her childhood in Suriname and the Netherlands, and since 1969 in Nijmegen . In 1983 she completed her studies in cultural anthropology at the University of Amsterdam, and in 1990 received her doctorate there in the field of social sciences.

Life

Essed is known for her research into everyday racism in Western Europe and her theoretical work on Everyday Racism ( Alledaags racisme ). She participated in the research project “ Racism at the Top ” of the Austrian Ministry of Science and Transport. Under the direction of Ruth Wodak ( University of Vienna ) and Teun A. van Dijk , she examined the role of political elites in the emergence and reproduction of racism and anti-racism using discourse analysis . Seven Western European countries were examined.

Fonts

  • Everyday Racism. Reports From Women of Two Cultures. Hunter House, 1990.
  • Understanding Everyday Racism. An Interdisciplinary Theory. Sage, 1991. (Orig .: Diss. Univ. Amsterdam, 1990)
  • Diversity. Gender, Color and Culture. University of Massachusetts Press, 1996.
Co-editor
  • Race Critical Theories. Blackwell, 2002.
  • Refugees and the Transformation of Societies. Agency, Policies, Ethics and Politics. Berghahn 2004.
  • A Companion to Gender Studies. Blackwell 2005.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Philomena Essed on encyclopediaofafroeuropeanstudies.eu
  2. ↑ Austrian Ministry of Science and Transport: Xenophobia ( Memento of the original from August 16, 2004 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on bmbwk.gv.at @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bmbwk.gv.at
personal data
SURNAME Essed, Philomena
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Essed, Philomena Johanna Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Utrecht