Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism

by Jared Sexton

Book Overview

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.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816651051
• ISBN13: 9780816651054
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.0"