Postracial America? : An Interdisciplinary Study.
Stephens, Vincent L.
Postracial America? : An Interdisciplinary Study. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - The Griot Project Book Series . - The Griot Project Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I: Whose Ideal? -- 1 Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument -- 2 Black Is Red All Over Again -- 3 College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative -- 4 The Death of Race -- 5 Against "Lynch Law" in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes -- II: Applying and Misapplying the Postracial -- 6 Are We the "Future Americans"? -- 7 The Desire for the End of Race -- 8 Guns to the Border of Black and Queer -- 9 Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Postracial America? argues that the notion of "postracial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will it end with his administration. The "postracial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations of this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression.
9781611487800
Post-racialism--United States.
United States--Race relations.
Electronic books.
E184.A1P659 2017
305.800973
Postracial America? : An Interdisciplinary Study. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (221 pages) - The Griot Project Book Series . - The Griot Project Book Series .
Intro -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Foreword -- Introduction -- I: Whose Ideal? -- 1 Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument -- 2 Black Is Red All Over Again -- 3 College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative -- 4 The Death of Race -- 5 Against "Lynch Law" in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes -- II: Applying and Misapplying the Postracial -- 6 Are We the "Future Americans"? -- 7 The Desire for the End of Race -- 8 Guns to the Border of Black and Queer -- 9 Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Contributors.
Postracial America? argues that the notion of "postracial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will it end with his administration. The "postracial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations of this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression.
9781611487800
Post-racialism--United States.
United States--Race relations.
Electronic books.
E184.A1P659 2017
305.800973