Race Defaced Paradigms of Pessimism, Politics of Possibility - Torres, Rodolfo (Stanford University Press, 2012)
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&DIV&From Manifest Destiny to the White Man's Burden, Harold Macmillan to Tony Blair, and John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama-the historical development of racial doctrine has been closely connected to the relationship between radical and conservative politics. This book compares different forms of racism and anti-racism in the United States and Great Britain from the 19th century to today, situating the development of racial doctrine within the political movements of the modern capitalist world order.&BR&&BR&In conversation with current debates, this work places the treatment of racialized human
Preface; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1: Hopeful Subjects and the "System of Natural Liberty"; Chapter 2: The Weakness of Whiteness; Chapter 3: From Social Democratic Race Relations to Multicultural Capitalism; Chapter 4: Other than Mexicans; Chapter 5: What May I Hope?; Chapter 6: A Prelude to Class; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index