Postracial America? (eBook)

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.

List of Illustrations Acknowledgments Foreword byCarmen GillespieIntroduction: The Postracial—The General and the ParticularsbyVincent Stephens and Anthony StewartPart I. Whose Ideal? The History and the Fiction of PostracialityChapter 1: Frederick Douglass Confronts the Post-Slavery Argument: Regarding Some Origins of the Postracial Idea byÉva TettenbornChapter 2: Black Is Red All Over Again: The Returns of Cold War Anticommunist Rhetoricby James ZeiglerChapter 3: College Students Counter the Postracial Narrative by Mary Jo McCloskeyChapter 4: The Death of Race: Living Posthumously in a Postracial Societyby Whitney ShepardChapter 5: Against “Lynch Law” in the Age of Extrajudicial Killing and War Crimes by Spring UlmerPart II. Applying and Misapplying the PostracialChapter 6: Are We the “Future Americans”? Charles Chesnutt Anticipates a Postracial American Society by Cherise A. PollardChapter 7: The Desire for the End of Race: Barthes, Everett, and the Belief in the Postracialby Anthony StewartChapter 8: Guns on the Border of Black and Queer: Firearms and Redemption Schemes in Tarantino’s Pulp Fictionby Joshua BrewerChapter 9: Postracism in Heidi W. Durrow’s The Girl Who Fell from the Sky: Racial Identity and the New Universal Subjectby Márcia C. AgustiniBibliography Index About the Contributors