Postracial America?

Postracial America?: an interdisciplinary study

by Stephens, Vincent L. Stewart, Anthony

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This book argues that the notion of the "post-racial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will its significance end with the conclusion of his administration. The "post-racial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations within this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression

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  • Full title :Postracial America? : an interdisciplinary study / edited by Vincent L. Stephens and Anthony Stewart.

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This book argues that the notion of the "post-racial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will its significance end with the conclusion of his administration. The "post-racial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations within this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression

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  • Publication Date:©2017

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : : illustrations

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781611487800, 1611487803
  • oclc:ocn959922855
  • 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? the history and the fiction of postraciality -- 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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Subjects

États-Unis -- Relations raciales Post-racialism Post-racialism -- United States Race relations SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race… SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies Société postraciale -- États-Unis United States United States -- Race relations

Writers

Stephens, Vincent L. Stewart, Anthony

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