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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822160603321

Autore

Rivers Patrick Lynn

Titolo

Governing hate and race in the United States and South Africa / / Patrick Lynn Rivers

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Albany, : SUNY Press, c2008

ISBN

0-7914-7784-3

1-4356-6694-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Racism - United States

Racism - South Africa

Hate crimes - United States

Hate crimes - South Africa

Social problems - United States

Social problems - South Africa

United States Race relations

United States Politics and government

South Africa Race relations

South Africa Politics and government

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 155-171) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- States of Racial Mind -- Is Racism Burning? -- Tortious Race, Race Torts -- After 9/11 -- Complicating Identity, Naturalizing Equality -- Can Racism Burn? -- Postscript -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

In this book, Patrick Lynn Rivers asserts that states govern racist hate by governing racial constructs. Rivers maintains that state practices used to govern hate and race in both the United States and South Africa do not make citizens safer, even as the United States markets itself as a "melting pot" of cultures and South Africa touts its status as the new multicultural "city on a hill." In effect, the regulatory practices of the neoliberal state aid in the redirection of responsibility for the eradication of racist hate away from the nation and toward the hated,



leaving unaddressed the systemic causes of hate. In line with emerging scholarship on hate, but also taking advantage of the perspective that comparative analysis makes possible, Rivers advocates a particular brand of progressive activism for a socially engaged state and citizenry where race is central and racism is not anomalous.