Includes bibliographical references (pages 287-319) and index.
Contents:
Veiled visibility : racial performances and hegemonic leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week / Inna Arzumanova. Theorizing race in the age of inequality / Daniel Martinez HoSang and Joseph Lowndes -- "Jamming" the color line : comedy, carnival, and contestations of commodity colorism / Radhika Parameswaran -- On the post-racial question / Roderick A. Ferguson -- Becked up : Glenn Beck, white supremacy and the hijacking of the civil rights legacy / Cynthia A. Young -- Technological elites, the meritocracy, and post-racial myths in Silicon Valley / Safiya Umoja Noble and Sarah Roberts -- Vocal recognition : racial and sexual difference after (tele)visuality / Karen Tongson -- More than a game : LeBron James and the affective economy of place / Victoria E. Johnson -- Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth : Pharell Williams and the false promises of the post-racial / Kevin Fellezs -- Indie soaps : race and the possibilities of TV drama / Aymar Jean Christian -- Debt by design : race and home valorization on reality TV / Eva C. Hageman -- "Haute [ghetto] mess" : post-racial aesthetics and the seduction of Blackness in high fashion / Brandi Summers -- Veiled visibility : racial performances and hegemonic leaks in Pakistani Fashion Week / Inna Arzumanova.
Summary:
With the election of Barack Obama, the idea that American society had become postracial-that is, race was no longer a main factor in influencing and structuring people's lives-took hold in public consciousness, increasingly accepted by many. The contributors to 'Racism Postrace' examine the concept of postrace and its powerful history and allure, showing how proclamations of a postracial society further normalize racism and obscure structural antiblackness. They trace expressions of postrace over and through a wide variety of cultural texts, events, and people, from sports (LeBron James's move to Miami), music (Pharrell Williams's "Happy"), and television (The Voice and HGTV) to public policy debates, academic disputes, and technology industries. Outlining how postrace ideologies confound struggles for racial justice and equality, the contributors open up new critical avenues for understanding the powerful cultural, discursive, and material conditions that render postrace the racial project of our time.
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