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Postracial America? : an interdisciplinary study / edited by Vincent L. Stephens and Anthony Stewart

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Lanham, Maryland : Bucknell University Press, [2017]
Copyright Date
©2017
Physical Description
1 online resource (xv, 203 pages) : illustrations
Additional Creators
Stephens, Vincent L. and Stewart, Anthony, 1964-
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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.
Summary
This book argues that the notion of the "post-racial" does not begin with the election of Barack Obama, nor will its significance end with the conclusion of his administration. The "post-racial" is an expression of the protean nature of white supremacy in America, and the articles collected here demonstrate the variations within this seemingly innocuous and salutary expression
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9781611487800 (Electronic)
1611487803 (Electronic)
9781611487794 (cloth ; alk. paper)
161148779X
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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