Order and Disorder

Abstract

This chapter explores, in particular, the failure — on the part of some of the most influential accounts of everyday life — to properly consider racism as a part of ordinary experience. More than this, however, it argues that those theories have not paid sufficient attention to the ways in which ideas of everydayness have been a part of, and are marked by, the history of modern race-making. It looks particularly at the work of Henri Lefebvre and Michel de Certeau in this regard.