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Concept of post-racial: how its easy dismissal obscures important questions / Hollinger, David A

Hollinger, David A	Journal Article
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2011.

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Nearly all of today's confident dismissals of the notion of a "post-racial" America address the simple question, "Are we beyond racism or not?" But most of the writers who have used the terms post-racial or post-ethnic sympathetically have explored other questions: What is the significance of the blurring of ethnoracial lines through cross-group marriage and reproduction? How should we interpret the relatively greater ability of immigrant blacks as compared to standard "African Americans" to overcome racist barriers? What do we make of increasing evidence that economic and educational conditions prior to immigration are more powerful determinants than "race" in affecting the destiny of population groups that have immigrated to the United States in recent decades? Rather than calling constant attention to the undoubted reality of racism, this essay asks scholars and anti-racist intellectuals more generally to think beyond "the problem of the color line" in order to focus on "the problem of solidarity." The essay argues that the most easily answered questions are not those that most demand our attention.

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Racism ; Immigration ; United States ; America ; Post - Racial ; Racist Barriers

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Darkwater’s democratic vision / Balfour, Lawrie

Balfour, Lawrie	Journal Article
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2010.

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This essay considers W. E. B. Du Bois's Darkwater (1920) as a window onto Du Bois's political theory at an underexamined stage of his career and onto a challenge at the heart of black political thought: how to formulate a conception of collective life that regards the humanity of black women and men as a central concern. Exploring Du Bois's attempt to articulate what can be seen through the lens of an avowedly "black" perspective and his creative juxtaposition of different modes of writing, the author suggests why Darkwater remains a valuable resource for democratic theory in an age misleadingly described as "post-racial."

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Colonialism ; Du Bois ; Black Political Thought ; Darkwater ; Post - Racial

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