The Threat of Race (eBook)

David Theo Goldberg directs the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature and Criminology, Law and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Critical Theory Institute, at the University of California, Irvine. He has authored several books, including The Racial State (Blackwell, 2002) and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Blackwell, 1993).

Preface and Acknowledgments vi

Author's Note xii

1 Buried, Alive 1

2 "Killing Me Softly": Civility/Race/Violence 32

3 Deva-Stating Discriminations, Discriminating Devastations (On Racial Americanization) 66

4 Targets of Opportunity (On Racial Palestinianization) 106

5 Precipitating Evaporation (On Racial Europeanization) 151

6 Revealing Alchemies (On Racial Latinamericanization) 199

7 A Political Theology of Race (On Racial Southafricanization) 245

8 Enduring Occupations (On Racial Neoliberalism) 327

Index of Authors 377

Index of Keywords 382

"Yet, it has the great value of underlining that Africa's future is indeed in the hands of Africans, and only they will determine if it is a successful future or a return to second fiddle of human history ... At the same time, I am sure, those who know Africa will realize how much this book reflect the reality on the ground. A reality that will surprise the world in the years to come." (South World, 1 October 2011)

"This is powerful stuff. The author intends no scholarly dispassion, no footnoted academic treatise. Rather he presents an impassioned argument at length, replete with examples, full of word games to emphasize a point. There is fire in this work. The book is interesting, written with passion and obvious pleasure in playing with the language. The Threat of Raceis a strong addition to the growing library of anti-globalism, [and] anti-neoliberal critiques." (Indigenous Peoples Issues & Resources, August 2009)

"Written with the same clarity and masterly command of contemporary
scholarship as his now classic Racist Culture and The
Racial State, and powerfully articulating the tensions of the
postcolonial societies in the North and the South, David Theo
Goldberg's new book is likely to transform the lively debate
on the construction of "race" as category and its
relationship to historical processes of
"racialization"."

-Etienne Balibar, Paris X Nanterre and University of
California

"A systematic, wonderfully readable and thoroughly radical
assessment of the politics of race that offers a unique perspective
on where critical race theory stands at the moment, and the
questions just beginning to emerge for the future."

-Achille Mbembe, author of On the
Postcolony