Amalgamation Schemes Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism

Name: Amalgamation Schemes Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism
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ISBN: 9780816651054

ISBN-10: 0816651051

ISBN-13: 9780816651054

Edition: 2008

Authors: Jared Sexton

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Despite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the postcivil 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. nbsp; In this timely and penetrating analysis, Sexton pursues a critique of contemporary multiracialism, from the splintered political initiatives of the multiracial movement to the academic field of multiracial studies, to the melodramatic media declarations about ldquo;the…

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List price: $22.50
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication date: 8/5/2008
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 328
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English



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


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