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

• Autore: Sexton Jared (Associate Professor)
• Pubblicazione: Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (353 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.800973
• Soggetto topico: Interracial marriage - United States; Race discrimination - United States; Racially mixed people - United States
• Soggetto geografico: United States Race relations
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Amalgamation schemes
• ISBN: 0-8166-5663-0
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910782850103321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II