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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822355503321

Autore

Sexton Jared (Associate Professor)

Titolo

Amalgamation schemes [[electronic resource] ] : antiblackness and the critique of multiracialism / / Jared Sexton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008

ISBN

0-8166-5663-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (353 p.)

Disciplina

305.800973

Soggetti

Interracial marriage - United States

Race discrimination - United States

Racially mixed people - United States

United States Race relations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 297-325) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: On the verge of race -- Beyond the event horizon : the multiracial project -- Scales of coercion and consent : sexual violence, antimiscegenation, and the limits of multiracial America -- There is no (interracial) sexual relationship -- The consequence of race mixture -- The true names of race : blackness and antiblackness in global contexts.

Sommario/riassunto

Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post-civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. More accurately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiculturalism displaces both by evoking long-standing tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality. In this timely and penetrating analysis, Sexton pursues a critique of contemporary multiracialism, from the splintered political initiatives of the multiracial movement to the ac