Amalgamation schemes : antiblackness and the critique of multiracialism / Jared Sexton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sexton, Jared Yates.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Multiracial people--United States.

Multiracial people.

Interracial marriage--United States.

Interracial marriage.

Race discrimination--United States.

Race discrimination.

Physical Description:

345 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2008]

Summary:

Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post-civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiracialism displaces both by evoking long-standing tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality.

In this timely and penetrating analysis, Sexton pursues a critique of contemporary multiracialism, from the splintered political initiatives of the multiracial movement to the academic field of multiracial studies, to the melodramatic media declarations about "the browning of America." He contests the rationales of colorblindness and multiracial exceptionalism in order to demonstrate that the true target of multiracialism is the singularity of blackness as a social identity, a political organizing principle, and an object of desire. An original and challenging intervention, Amalgamation Schemes posits that multiracialism stems from the conservative and reactionary forces determined to undo the gains of the modern civil rights movement and dismantle radical black and feminist politics.

Contents:

Introduction: On the verge of race

Beyond the event horizon : the multiracial project

Scales of coercion and consent : sexual violence, antimiscegenation, and the limits of multiracial America

There is no (interracial) sexual relationship

The consequence of race mixture

The true names of race : blackness and antiblackness in global contexts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 297-325) and index.

ISBN:

9780816651047

0816651043

9780816651054

0816651051

OCLC:

191760079