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  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review)

    Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism (review) Callaloo Volume 34, Number 1 (Winter 2011) pages 208-210 E-ISSN: 1080-6512; Print ISSN: 0161-2492 DOI: 10.1353/cal.2011.0007 Kirin Wachter-Grene University of Washington, Seattle Jared Sexton. Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2008. Anxieties about American multiracial identity and practices, known…

  • Multiracialism cuts its teeth on the denial of this fundamental social truth…

    Multiracialism cuts its teeth on the denial of this fundamental social truth: not simply that antiblackness is longstanding and ongoing but also that it is unlike other forms of racial oppression in qualitative ways—differences of kind, rather than degree, a structural singularity rather than an empirical anomaly. Jared Sexton, Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique…

  • The Consequence of Race Mixture: Racialised Barriers and the Politics of Desire

    These epigraphs should be considered heretical to the project of the contemporary multiracial movement in the United States Insofar as its proponents and intellectuals speak of the ‘the end(s) of race’, the concept of multiraciality prides itself on the trouble it supposedly causes to the white supremacist rage for order, that is, its ostensible violation…

  • Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard]

    Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism [Review: Spickard] American Studies Volume 50, No. 1/2: Spring/Summer 2009 pages 125-127 Paul Spickard, Professor of History University of California, Santa Barbara Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism. Jared Sexton. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. 2008. One of the major developments in ethnic studies over…

  • Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics

    Charles W. Chesnutt and the Engendering of a Post-Reconstruction Multiracial Politics The Conversation Number 2 (2009-2010) Kirin Wachter-Grene Once a promising fiction writer and would-be spokesman for African-Americans, Charles W. Chesnutt promoted a form of multiracialism but is largely forgotten today. Kirin Wachter-Grene traces the development of Chesnutt’s ideas about the amalgamation of races and…

  • Diversity That Matters: A Commitment to Social Justice

    Diversity That Matters: A Commitment to Social Justice CCCC: Supporting and promoting the teaching and study of college composition and communication 2009-06-04 Annette Harris Powell, Assistant Professor of English Bellarmine University I teach at a university with a mission grounded in the Catholic Intellectual tradition of faith and reason and focused on the examined life…

  • Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery

    Jared Sexton: People of Color-Blindness: Notes on the Afterlife of Slavery University of Northern Arizona Gardner Auditorium, W.A. Franke College of Business, NAU 2010-03-25, 17:30 to 19:00 CDT (Local Time) Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine   This lecture explores the significance of the…

  • The Politics of Biracialism [Issue]

    The Politics of Biracialism [Issue] The Black Scholar Journal of Black Studies and Research Fall 2009 (2009-09-22) Volume 39, No. 3/4 Guest Editors: Laura Chrisman, Professor of English University of Washington Habiba Ibrahim, Assistant Professor of English University of Washington Ralina Joseph, Assistant Professor of Communications University of Washington Why a biracial issue, and why now? As…