Postracial America?: an interdisciplinary study
by Stephens, Vincent L. Stewart, Anthony
"The concept of a "postracial" America - the dream of a nation beyond race - has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden the application of this idea by situating it in contexts that demonstrate how the idea of the postracial has been with America since its founding and will continue to be long after the Obama administrati…
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- Full title :Postracial America? : an interdisciplinary study / edited by Vincent L. Stephens and Anthony Stewart.
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"The concept of a "postracial" America - the dream of a nation beyond race - has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden the application of this idea by situating it in contexts that demonstrate how the idea of the postracial has been with America since its founding and will continue to be long after the Obama administration's term ends. The chapters in this volume explore the idea of the postracial in the United States through a variety of critical lenses, including film studies; literature; aesthetics and conceptual thinking; politics; media representations; race in relation to gender, identity, and sexuality; and personal experiences. Through this diverse interdisciplinary exploration, this collection skeptically weighs the implications of holding up a postracial culture as an admirable goal for the United States" -- From the publisher.
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- Publication Date:©2017
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Bucknell University Press
- Place of Publication:Lewisburg
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2017
The Physical Object
- Description:xv, 203 pages ; : 24 cm.
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781611487794, 161148779X, 9781611487817, 1611487811, 9781611487800, 1611487803
- oclc:ocn959922541
- LC Classification:E184.A1
- Dewey Decimal:305.800973
Table of Contents
Introduction: the postracial: the general and the particulars / by Vincent Stephens and Anthony Stewart -- Part I. Whose ideal? -- Frederick Douglass confronts the post-slavery argument: regarding some origins of the postracial idea / by Éva Tettenborn -- Black is red all over again: the returns of Cold War anticommunist rhetoric / by James Zeigler -- College students counter the postracial narrative / by Mary Jo McCloskey -- The death of race: living posthumously in a postracial society / by Whitney Shepard -- Against Lynch Law in the age of extrajudicial killing and war crimes / by Spring Ulmer -- Part II. Applying and misapplying the postracial -- Are we the future Americans? Charles Chesnutt anticipates a postracial American society / by Cherise A. Pollard -- The desire for the end of race: Barthes, Everett, and the belief in the postracial / by Anthony Stewart -- Guns on the border of black and queer: firearms and redemption schemes in Tarantino's Pulp fiction / by Joshua Brewer -- Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The girl who fell from the sky: racial identity and the new universal subject / by Márcia C. Agustini.
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