Racial Order of Things Cultural Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era

Name: Racial Order of Things Cultural Imaginaries of the Post-Soul Era
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ISBN: 9780816647064

ISBN-10: 0816647062

ISBN-13: 9780816647064

Edition: 2006

Authors: Roopali Mukherjee

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Why did affirmative action programs implemented during the sixties and seventies suffer vicious assaults in the nineties? How were culturally resonant appeals to individualism and colorblindness turned around during the nineties to epitomize a "toxic system of quotas, preference, and set-asides"? In The Racial Order of Things, Roopali Mukherjee analyzes reversals and reinterpretations that mark the turn from the civil rights era of the sixties to the post-soul decade of the nineties. She begins by surveying a series of intractable disagreements over race- and gender-based social justice that have played out over the past decade, framed by the 1996 passage of California's Proposition 209 and…

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List price: $26.50
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 10/6/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.85" wide x 9.00" long x 0.60" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

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Acknowledgments


Introduction



Race, Gender, and the Constitution of Subjects: Enemies, Allies, Alibis



The Affirmative Action Film of the Nineties: Hollywood Cinema as Racial Regime



Civil Rights, Affirmative Action, and the American South: Eyewitnesses to the Racial Past



Of Heroism and Healing, Racism and Redemption: Tall Tales and Short Lists


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index