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

by Roopali Mukherjee

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816647062
• ISBN13: 9780816647064
• Release Date: October 2006
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.9"