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Postracial America?
An Interdisciplinary Study
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2016
Summary
The concept of a “postracial” America —the dream of a nation beyond race — has attracted much attention over the course of the presidency of Barack Obama, suggesting that this idea is peculiar to the contemporary moment alone. Postracial America? An Interdisciplinary Study attempts to broaden the application of this idea by situating it in contexts that demonstrate how the idea of the postracial has been with America since its founding and will continue to be long after the Obama administration’s term ends. The chapters in this volume explore the idea of the postracial in the United States through a variety of critical lenses, including film studies; literature; aesthetics and conceptual thinking; politics; media representations; race in relation to gender, identity, and sexuality; and personal experiences. Through this diverse interdisciplinary exploration, this collection skeptically weighs the implications of holding up a postracial culture as an admirable goal for the United States.
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Copyright year
2016
ISBN-Print
978-1-61148-779-4
ISBN-Online
978-1-61148-780-0
Publisher
University Press Copublishing, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
203
Product type
Edited Book
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List of Illustrations No access
Acknowledgments No access
Foreword No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 18
1 Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument No access
2 Black Is Red All Over Again No access
3 College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative No access
4 The Death of Race No access
5 Against “Lynch Law” in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes No access
6 Are We the “Future Americans”? No access
7 The Desire for the End of Race No access
8 Guns to the Border of Black and Queer No access
9 Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky No access
