Racism post-race / Roopali Mukherjee, Sarah Banet-Weiser, and Herman Gray, editors.
With the election of Barack Obama, the idea that American society had become postracial-that is, race was no longer a main factor in influencing and structuring people's lives-took hold in public consciousness, increasingly accepted by many. The contributors to 'Racism Postrace' examine the concept...
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| Language: | English |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2019.
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| Physical Description: | 341 pages : illustrations |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Race after race / Herman Gray
- Theorizing race in the age of inequality / Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes
- "Jamming" the color line : comedy, carnival, and contestations of commodity colorism / Radhika Parameswaran
- On the post-racial question / Roderick A. Ferguson
- 5. Becked up : Glenn Beck, white supremacy and the hijacking of the civil rights legacy / Cynthia A. Young
- Technological elites, the meritocracy, and post-racial myths in Silicon Valley / Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah Roberts
- Vocal recognition : racial and sexual difference after (tele)visuality / Karen Tongson
- More than a game : LeBron James and the affective economy of place / Victoria E. Johnson
- Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth : Pharell Williams and the false promises of the post-racial / Kevin Fellezs
- Indie soaps : race and the possibilities of TV drama / Aymar Jean Christian
- Debt by design : race and home valorization on reality TV / Eva C. Hageman
- "Haute [ghetto] mess" : post-racial aesthetics and the seduction of Blackness in high fashion / Brandi Summers
- Veiled visibility : racial performances and hegemonic leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week / Inna Arzumanova.