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 of postrace and its powerful history and allure, showing how proclamations of a postracial society further normalize racism and obscure structural antiblackness. They trace expressions of postrace over and through a wide variety of cultural texts, events, and people, from sports (LeBron James's move to Miami), music (Pharrell Williams's “Happy”), and television (The Voice and HGTV) to public policy debates, academic disputes, and technology industries. Outlining how postrace ideologies confound struggles for racial justice and equality, the contributors open up new critical avenues for understanding the powerful cultural, discursive, and material conditions that render postrace the racial project of our time.
Contributors. Inna Arzumanova, Sarah Banet-Weiser, Aymer Jean Christian, Kevin Fellezs, Roderick A. Ferguson, Herman Gray, Eva C. Hageman, Daniel Martinez HoSang, Victoria E. Johnson, Joseph Lowndes, Roopali Mukherjee, Safiya Umoja Noble, Radhika Parameswaran, Sarah T. Roberts, Catherine R. Squires, Brandi Thompson Summers, Karen Tongson, Cynthia A. Young
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- Introduction | Postrace Racial Projects
- Part One: Assumptions
- 1. Race After Race
- 2. Theorizing Race in the Age of Inequality
- 3. “Jamming” the Color Line | Comedy, Carnival, and Contestations of Commodity Colorism
- 4. On the Postracial Question
- 5. Becked Up | Glenn Beck, White Supremacy, and the Hijacking of the Civil Rights Legacy
- 6. Technological Elites, the Meritocracy, and Postracial Myths in Silicon Valley
- Part Two: Performances
- 7. Vocal Recognition | Racial and Sexual Difference after (Tele) Visuality
- 8. More Than a Game | LeBron James and the Affective Economy of Place
- 9. Clap Along If You Feel Like Happiness Is the Truth | Pharrell Williams and the False Promises of the Postracial
- 10. Indie Soaps | Race and the Possibilities of TV Drama
- 11. Debt by Design | Race and Home Valorization on Reality TV
- 12. “Haute [Ghetto] Mess” | Postracial Aesthetics and the Seduction of Blackness in High Fashion
- 13. Veiled Visibility | Racial Performances and Hegemonic Leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week
- Epilogue | Incantation
- References
- Contributors
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