The Racial Order Of Things: Cultural Imaginaries Of The Post-Soul Era
Roopali Mukherjee
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Hardback. Num Pages: 272 pages, 6 halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFSL; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 21. Weight in Grams: 503.
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 post-soul decade of the nineties. She begins by surveying a series of intractable disagreements over race- and gender-based social justice that have played out over the past decade, framed by the 1996 passage of ... Read more
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 post-soul decade of the nineties. She begins by surveying a series of intractable disagreements over race- and gender-based social justice that have played out over the past decade, framed by the 1996 passage of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816647057
SKU
V9780816647057
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About Roopali Mukherjee
Roopali Mukherjee is assistant professor of media studies at Queens College of the City University of New York.
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