Postracial America? an interdisciplinary study

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 article...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Stephens, Vincent L., editor (editor), Stewart, Anthony, 1964- editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press [2017]
Colección:EBSCO Academic eBook Collection.
The Griot Project book series.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b47060918*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.