LEADER 04078nam 2200697 a 450 001 9910815974303321 005 20240516122324.0 010 $a1-4529-4742-2 010 $a0-8166-7862-6 035 $a(CKB)2550000000087324 035 $a(EBL)863816 035 $a(OCoLC)776590479 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000599867 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11382292 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000599867 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10598929 035 $a(PQKB)10647592 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001178057 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC863816 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse29958 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL863816 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10531203 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525920 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000000087324 100 $a20110711d2011 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aRepresent and destroy$b[electronic resource] $erationalizing violence in the new racial capitalism /$fJodi Melamed 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aMinneapolis $cUniv. of Minnesota Press$d2011 215 $a1 online resource (300 p.) 225 1 $aDifference incorporated 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8166-7425-6 311 $a0-8166-7424-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aMachine generated contents note: ContentsPrefaceIntroduction: Producing Discourses of Certainty with Official Antiracisms -- 1. Killing Sympathies: Racial Liberalism and Race Novels -- 2. Counterinsurgent Canon Wars and Surviving Liberal Multiculturalism -- 3. Making Global Citizens: Neoliberal Multiculturalism and Literary Value -- 4. Difference as Strategy in International Indigenous Peoples' Movements -- Epilogue: Rematerializing AntiracismAcknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. 330 $a"In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations of difference. Following the institutionalization of literature as a privileged domain for Americans to get to know difference--to describe, teach, and situate themselves with respect to race--Melamed focuses on literary studies as a cultural technology for transmitting liberal racial orders. She examines official antiracism in the United States and finds that these were key to ratifying the country's global ascendancy. She shows how racial liberalism, liberal multiculturalism, and neoliberal multiculturalism made racism appear to be disappearing, even as they incorporated the assumptions of global capitalism into accepted notions of racial equality. Yet Represent and Destroy also recovers an anticapitalist "race radical" tradition that provides a materialist opposition to official antiracisms in the postwar United States--a literature that sounds out the violence of liberal racial orders, relinks racial inequality to material conditions, and compels desire for something better than U.S. multiculturalism"--$cProvided by publisher. 410 0$aDifference incorporated. 606 $aRacism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRacism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMulticulturalism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aMulticulturalism$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aRacism in literature 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aRacism$xHistory 615 0$aMulticulturalism$xHistory 615 0$aMulticulturalism$xHistory 615 0$aRacism in literature. 676 $a303.6089/00973 700 $aMelamed$b Jodi$01644357 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910815974303321 996 $aRepresent and destroy$93990172 997 $aUNINA