Postracial America?

Vincent Stephens is the director of the Popel Shaw Center for Race and Ethnicity at Dickinson College. Anthony Stewart is professor of English at Bucknell University.

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Acknowledgments
Foreword by Carmen Gillespie
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
Chapter 1: Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument: Regarding Some Origins of the Postracial Idea by Éva Tettenborn
Chapter 2: Black Is Red All Over Again: The Returns of Cold War Anticommunist Rhetoric by James Zeigler
Chapter 3: College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative by Mary Jo McCloskey
Chapter 4: The Death of Race: Living Posthumously in a Postracial Society by Whitney Shepard
Chapter 5: Against “Lynch Law” in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes by Spring Ulmer
Part II. Applying and Misapplying the Postracial
Chapter 6: Are We the “Future Americans”? Charles Chesnutt Anticipates a Postracial American Society by Cherise A. Pollard
Chapter 7: The Desire for the End of Race: Barthes, Everett, and the Belief in the Postracial by Anthony Stewart
Chapter 8: Guns on the Border of Black and Queer: Firearms and Redemption Schemes in Tarantino’s Pulp Fiction by Joshua Brewer
Chapter 9: Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: Racial Identity and the New Universal Subject by Márcia C. Agustini
Bibliography
Index
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