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“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The
mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public
schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving
communities. In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David
Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these
attacks. He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory,
uncovering who is orchestrating it, funding the assault, and
eagerly distributing the message. The book richly illustrates the
enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative
insistence on colorblindness serves to silence the possibility of
doing anything about it. Crucially, Goldberg exposes the political
aims and effects of the vitriolic attacks. The upshot of CRT’s
targeting, he argues, has been to unleash racisms anew and to
stymie any attempt to fight them, all with the aim of protecting
white minority rule.
Racial Subjects heralds the next wave of writing about race and
moves discussions about race forward as few other books recently
have. Arguing that racism is best understood as exclusionary
relations of power rather than simply as hateful expressions, David
Theo Goldberg analyzes contemporary expressions of race and racism.
He engages political economy, culture, and everyday material life
against a background analysis of profound demographic shifts and
changing class formation and relations. Issues covered in Racial
Subjects include the history of changing racial categories over the
last two hundred years of U.S. census taking, multiculturalism, the
experience of being racially mixed, the rise of new black public
intellectuals, race and the law in the wake of the O. J. Simpson
verdict, relations between blacks and Jews, and affirmative action.
“Critical Race Theory” is consuming conservative America. The
mounting attacks on a once-obscure legal theory are upending public
schooling, legislating censorship, driving elections, and cleaving
communities. In this much-needed response, renowned scholar David
Theo Goldberg cuts to the heart of the claims expressed in these
attacks. He punctures the demonization of Critical Race Theory,
uncovering who is orchestrating it, funding the assault, and
eagerly distributing the message. The book richly illustrates the
enduring nature of structural racism, even as a conservative
insistence on colorblindness serves to silence the possibility of
doing anything about it. Crucially, Goldberg exposes the political
aims and effects of the vitriolic attacks. The upshot of CRT’s
targeting, he argues, has been to unleash racisms anew and to
stymie any attempt to fight them, all with the aim of protecting
white minority rule.
The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill,
James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both
theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British
imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth
century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to
bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this
legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and
imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in
the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of
current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians
conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and
political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as
slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our
understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and
promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue
between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those
critical of it.
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Utilitarianism and Empire (Hardcover)
Bart Schultz, Georgios Varouxakis; Contributions by David Theo Goldberg, H. S Jones, Javed Majeed, …
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The classical utilitarian legacy of Jeremy Bentham, J. S. Mill,
James Mill, and Henry Sidgwick has often been charged with both
theoretical and practical complicity in the growth of British
imperialism and the emerging racialist discourse of the nineteenth
century. But there has been little scholarly work devoted to
bringing together the conflicting interpretive perspectives on this
legacy and its complex evolution with respect to orientalism and
imperialism. This volume, with contributions by leading scholars in
the field, represents the first attempt to survey the full range of
current scholarly controversy on how the classical utilitarians
conceived of 'race' and the part it played in their ethical and
political programs, particularly with respect to such issues as
slavery and the governance of India. The book both advances our
understanding of the history of utilitarianism and imperialism and
promotes the scholarly debate, clarifying the major points at issue
between those sympathetic to the utilitarian legacy and those
critical of it.
This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together
twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of
racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and
the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly
into the boxes society requires them to check.
The essays in The Humanities in the Age of Information and
Post-Truth represent a defense of the social function of the
humanities in today's society. Edited by Ignacio Lopez-Calvo and
Christina Lux, the volume explains different ways in which the
humanities and the arts, beyond their intrinsic and nonfunctional
value, may be a valuable tool in our search for social justice,
human empathy, freedom, and peace, all the while helping us answer
many of the twenty-first century's big questions. Some essays
explore the ways in which the humanities may help us imagine a
different, more just world, and articulate politically effective
mechanisms to achieve such goals. Others address the place of the
humanities and the arts amid the ontological and epistemological
uncertainties constantly produced in a fast-changing world. While
the reader may suspect that these types of lucubration are a
desperate reaction to decreased public funding for the humanities
worldwide, a decreased enrollment of students, or anxiety over the
future of our profession, there is in this volume a coherent
argument for the continued need, perhaps more now than ever, to
invest in humanities education if we are to have informed and
socially conscious citizens rather than just willing consumers and
obedient workers. Furthermore, the essays prove that the humanities
and the arts are, after all, not a luxury but an integral part of a
complete scholarly education.
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