TY - JOUR
T1 - A critique of postracialism
T2 - Conserving race and complicating blackness beyond the black-white binary
AU - Gines, Kathryn T.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - This article offers a critique of the very claim that we live in postracial times, and examines the residue of old systems of racism intermeshed with new forms of racism that perpetuate systematic institutional racism. I argue that to combat institutional racism we need post-racism rather than postracialism. Additionally, I reject the Black-white Binary as the singular or even primary paradigm for understanding racism in order to challenge narrow conceptualizations of racism. Finally, I argue for a more nuanced and complex analysis of Blackness.
AB - This article offers a critique of the very claim that we live in postracial times, and examines the residue of old systems of racism intermeshed with new forms of racism that perpetuate systematic institutional racism. I argue that to combat institutional racism we need post-racism rather than postracialism. Additionally, I reject the Black-white Binary as the singular or even primary paradigm for understanding racism in order to challenge narrow conceptualizations of racism. Finally, I argue for a more nuanced and complex analysis of Blackness.
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U2 - 10.1017/S1742058X1400006X
DO - 10.1017/S1742058X1400006X
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84904959344
SN - 1742-058X
VL - 11
SP - 75
EP - 86
JO - Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
JF - Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race
IS - 1
ER -