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Postracial America? : an interdisciplinary study / edited by Vincent L. Stephens and Anthony Stewart.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Griot Project book series.
- The Griot Project book series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Post-racialism--United States.
- Post-racialism.
- United States--Race relations.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (221 pages) : color illustrations.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2017]
- 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?.
- Contents:
- Introduction: the postracial: the general and the particulars / by Vincent Stephens and Anthony Stewart
- Part I. Whose ideal? the history and the fiction of postraciality
- Frederick Douglass confronts the post-slavery argument: regarding some origins of the postracial idea / by Éva Tettenborn
- Black is red all over again: the returns of Cold War anticommunist rhetoric / by James Zeigler
- College students counter the postracial narrative / by Mary Jo McCloskey
- The death of race: living posthumously in a postracial society / by Whitney Shepard
- Against Lynch Law in the age of extrajudicial killing and war crimes / by Spring Ulmer
- Part II. Applying and misapplying the postracial
- Are we the future Americans? Charles Chesnutt anticipates a postracial American society / by Cherise A. Pollard
- The desire for the end of race: Barthes, Everett, and the belief in the postracial / by Anthony Stewart
- Guns on the border of black and queer: firearms and redemption schemes in Tarantino's Pulp fiction / by Joshua Brewer
- Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow's The girl who fell from the sky: racial identity and the new universal subject / by Márcia C. Agustini.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 979-82-16-35691-2
- 1-61148-780-3
- OCLC:
- 961343637
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