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Debating Race
Are We All Postracial Yet?
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.
199 pages, Paperback
First published August 3, 2015
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David Theo Goldberg
30 books17 followers*Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute, the University of California system-wide research facility for the human sciences and theoretical research in the arts.
*Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute
*Professor of Comparative Literature and of Criminology, Law, and Society at the University of California, Irvine, where he is a Fellow of the UCI Critical Theory Institute
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December 18, 2020
Goldberg’s analysis is incredibly relevant in 2020. Sometimes his writing was very technical and it was hard to grasp. Especially towards the end, it gets very confusing but I think part of that is intentional. Isnt race very confusing? It’s definitely frustrating living a life entirely defined by it but being unable to name or pinpoint exactly why things are just different for you.
It’s taken me decades to truly understand race in America and I’m a black woman with every motivation to do so. It doesn’t escape me that Goldberg is South African. Why does it take the people born outside of North America to come here and tell us about ourselves? 😶
It’s taken me decades to truly understand race in America and I’m a black woman with every motivation to do so. It doesn’t escape me that Goldberg is South African. Why does it take the people born outside of North America to come here and tell us about ourselves? 😶
July 10, 2019
An academic paper pusher turned prophet.
A book about "we".
About "we all".
About a nobody with an inflated ego wishing to upgrade to TV talking head.
A book about "we".
About "we all".
About a nobody with an inflated ego wishing to upgrade to TV talking head.
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