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Book SynopsisExploring the prospect for "postraciality," this anthology of essays seeks to inform discussion and debate about the possibility of postracial politics-those that are neither oblivious to the importance of racial classification nor the persistence of racism and injustice. Conceptualizing this type of politics as a set of interrelated institutional and cultural changes that can neither be separated from historical relations nor reduced to the past, this compendium collectively prioritizes complexity over simplicity, progress over retrenchment, unity over diversity, and polemics over dogmatism. Analyzing historical records and highlighting new directions in the studies of race and race relations in Canada, this volume provides a valuable postmodern perspective on social identity.
Table of ContentsA* Preface: The Prospects for Post-Raciality A* Chapter 1: Introduction: Paradoxes of Progress: Racism, Justice, and Social Change in Canada (Sean P. Hier and Daniel Lett) A* Section 1: Essentialism, Identity and Difference A* Introduction to Section 1 A* Chapter 2: Critical Race Theory: Towards a Post-Essentialist Form of Social Critique (Rita Dhamoon) A* Chapter 3: Let's Not All Go 'Post'-al: Towards a Genealogy of Essentialism (Alicja Muszynski) A* Chapter 4: The Way Forward: Reforming the Language of Race and Ethnicity (Michael Banton) A* Chapter 5: The Politics of Provenance: Genetics, Culture and Identity (Robert Carter) A* Chapter 6: Approaching Intersection: Individual Lives, Multiple Inequalities (Lori Wilkinson) A* Section II: Racism, Inequality and Change A* Introduction to Section 2 A* Chapter 7: On the Merits of Orientalism: A Heretical Essay on the Sociology of Knowledge (Peyman Vahabzadeh) A* Chapter 8: Modernity, Citizenship and Racialization: Jim Crowism and Lynching Campaigns in the Post-Emancipation Southern United States (Meir Amor) A* Chapter 9: The Sydney Cronulla Beach Riots: The Contexts and Contradictions of the Racialization of Young People (Jock Collins and Carol Reid) A* Chapter 10: Political Apologies and Racial Reconciliation (Graham Dodds) A* Section III: Multiculturalism, Antiracism and Justice A* Introduction to Section 3 A* Chapter 11: Recasting Racial Justice: Beyond the Economy/Culture Divide (Adam Molnar) A* Chapter 12: Racism, Justice, and Social Cohesion in Canada (Charles Ungerleider) A* Chapter 13: Competing Anti-racisms and the Interpretation of Racism in the Post-Multicultural Era (Alana Lentin) A* Chapter 14: Towards a Grassroots Multiculturalism? A Genealogical Analysis of Solidarity Practices in Canadian Activism Today (Mohamed Abdou, Richard JF Day, Sean Haber) A* Chapter 15: The Postfascist Condition: The Politics of Anti-Racism and Neofascism (William Little) A* Bibliography
