Beyond the Notion of Race

About the Book

J.M. Montenero's new book Beyond the Notion of Race addresses the single most important hurdle facing humanity's struggle against racism: the challenge of how to truly move beyond the social confines of racial behaviorism. The progression of globalization, immigration, integration, interracialism, miscegenation, multiculturalism and discoveries in human sciences have contributed to a growing body of evidence supporting the view that the concept of 'race' is more problematic than practical to the conventional social interplay of identity politics. While many people speak of 'tolerance' and 'class' as the means for overcoming the anti-social politics of racism, this book goes beyond the realm of tolerance, and exposes how conventional approaches to identity politics have only served to institutionalize social myths that undermine individuality and understanding. The book offers a definitive study on the topic of racial behaviorism and its motivations, clearly defining how and why people interpret, identify, classify, relate to and disassociate from one another by reason of color. In doing so, it delivers comprehensive insight on the psycho-dynamics of anti-social type behavior, in terms of defining what constitutes racial behaviorism, how and why it occurs, and it's affects in shaping society, both consciously and unconsciously.

Further motives of Beyond the Notion of Race are to examine the correlation between the physiological & psychological responses of humans in relation to corporeal and sociological experiences. It looks in-depth at how humanity's sensory conditioned relationship to color, in terms of symbolism and values systems versus concepts of ethnicity and group membership, have manipulated the psychological direction of a person's interpretations of their daily social experiences. More extensively, this text illuminates upon how various visual mediums, like motion pictures, television news and entertainment programming and the Internet, can affect the racial consciousness of it's viewers. Social identity is discussed at length, analyzing scientific, religious and ethnical perspectives of inter and intra-group identity as it pertains to the notion of race, ethnicity, evolution, genealogy, immigration, and culture. An explicit look is taken at the sociological circumstances surrounding people of multi-racial backgrounds in an unavoidably convergent, yet socially polarized global society. The book also explores those more elusive behavioral conditions that foster circumscribing experiences of racialized mobility and class differences in education and business, and discuses scholastic deterioration, affirmative action, globalizing market dynamics, and community living. This compilation subsequently reveals what institutionalized rejection does to personal aspirations when severed from the mainstream, how it backlashes upon the ruling-class, and to identify with anti-productive behaviors associated with disenfranchisement, as well as to look at the socioeconomic repercussions of residential polarization, ghettoization, and gentrification.

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