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.
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.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Vincent Stephens is the director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity at Dickinson College. Anthony Stewart is professor of English at Bucknell University.
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List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword by Carmen Gillespie 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 Chapter 1: Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument: Regarding Some Origins of the Postracial Idea by Éva Tettenborn Chapter 2: Black Is Red All Over Again: The Returns of Cold War Anticommunist Rhetoric by James Zeigler Chapter 3: College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative by Mary Jo McCloskey Chapter 4: The Death of Race: Living Posthumously in a Postracial Society by Whitney Shepard Chapter 5: Against "Lynch Law" in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes by Spring Ulmer Part II. Applying and Misapplying the Postracial Chapter 6: Are We the "Future Americans"? Charles Chesnutt Anticipates a Postracial American Society by Cherise A. Pollard Chapter 7: The Desire for the End of Race: Barthes, Everett, and the Belief in the Postracial by Anthony Stewart Chapter 8: Guns on the Border of Black and Queer: Firearms and Redemption Schemes in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction by Joshua Brewer Chapter 9: Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: Racial Identity and the New Universal Subject by Márcia C. Agustini Bibliography Index About the Contributors
List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword by Carmen Gillespie 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 Chapter 1: Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument: Regarding Some Origins of the Postracial Idea by Éva Tettenborn Chapter 2: Black Is Red All Over Again: The Returns of Cold War Anticommunist Rhetoric by James Zeigler Chapter 3: College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative by Mary Jo McCloskey Chapter 4: The Death of Race: Living Posthumously in a Postracial Society by Whitney Shepard Chapter 5: Against "Lynch Law" in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes by Spring Ulmer Part II. Applying and Misapplying the Postracial Chapter 6: Are We the "Future Americans"? Charles Chesnutt Anticipates a Postracial American Society by Cherise A. Pollard Chapter 7: The Desire for the End of Race: Barthes, Everett, and the Belief in the Postracial by Anthony Stewart Chapter 8: Guns on the Border of Black and Queer: Firearms and Redemption Schemes in Tarantino's Pulp Fiction by Joshua Brewer Chapter 9: Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: Racial Identity and the New Universal Subject by Márcia C. Agustini Bibliography Index About the Contributors
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