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Governing hate and race in the United States and South Africa / Patrick Lynn Rivers.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rivers, Patrick Lynn.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--United States.
- Racism.
- Racism--South Africa.
- Hate crimes--United States.
- Hate crimes.
- Hate crimes--South Africa.
- Social problems--United States.
- Social problems.
- Social problems--South Africa.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- United States--Politics and government.
- South Africa--Race relations.
- South Africa.
- South Africa--Politics and government.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : SUNY Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this book, Patrick Lynn Rivers asserts that states govern racist hate by governing racial constructs. Rivers maintains that state practices used to govern hate and race in both the United States and South Africa do not make citizens safer, even as the United States markets itself as a "melting pot" of cultures and South Africa touts its status as the new multicultural "city on a hill." In effect, the regulatory practices of the neoliberal state aid in the redirection of responsibility for the eradication of racist hate away from the nation and toward the hated, leaving unaddressed the systemic causes of hate. In line with emerging scholarship on hate, but also taking advantage of the perspective that comparative analysis makes possible, Rivers advocates a particular brand of progressive activism for a socially engaged state and citizenry where race is central and racism is not anomalous.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- States of Racial Mind
- Is Racism Burning?
- Tortious Race, Race Torts
- After 9/11
- Complicating Identity, Naturalizing Equality
- Can Racism Burn?
- Postscript
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-171) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780791477847
- 0791477843
- 9781435666948
- 1435666941
- OCLC:
- 257022559
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