The Threat of Race - David Theo Goldberg

The Threat of Race

Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism
Buch | Softcover
408 Seiten
2008
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-631-21968-2 (ISBN)
39,85 inkl. MwSt
Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today's world.
Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today’s world.

A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar of critical race theory
Explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how it continues to be articulated - if often denied - in today’s world
Argues that it is the neoliberal society that fuels new forms of racism
Surveys race dynamics throughout various regions of the world - from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America, and from Israel and Palestine to the United States

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

Reihe/Serie Wiley-Blackwell Manifestos
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 154 x 230 mm
Gewicht 581 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-631-21968-4 / 0631219684
ISBN-13 978-0-631-21968-2 / 9780631219682
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