Are We All Postracial Yet?

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-7456-8971-5
Verlag: Polity Press

Buch, Englisch, 168 Seiten, Format (B × H): 124 mm x 193 mm, Gewicht: 318 g

Reihe: Debating Race

We hear much talk about the advent of a “postracial” age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the U.S. was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents.

However, as Ferguson, MO, and countless social statistics show, beneath such claims lurk more sinister shadows of the racial everyday, institutional, and structural racisms persist and renew themselves beneath the polish of nonraciality. A conundrum lies at its very heart as seen when the election of a Black President was taken to be the pinnacle of postraciality.

In this sparkling essay, David Theo Goldberg seeks to explain this conundrum, and reveals how the postracial is merely the afterlife of race, not its demise. Postraciality is the new logic of raciality.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Goldberg, David Theo

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Kultursoziologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziale Ungleichheit, Armut, Rassismus

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

1 The pasts of the postracial

2 Postracial conditons

3 Postracial logics

4 Postracial subjects

5 Are we all postracial yet?

Über Autor(innen)

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.