{"id":34612,"date":"2013-11-06T03:01:21","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T03:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=34612"},"modified":"2016-11-11T19:53:55","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:53:55","slug":"trayvon-postblackness-and-the-postrace-dilemma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=34612","title":{"rendered":"Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/01903659-2367072\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/content\/40\/3.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 40, Number 3<\/a> (Fall 2013)<br \/>\npages 139-161<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1215\/01903659-2367072\" target=\"_blank\">10.1215\/01903659-2367072<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cmu.edu\/hss\/english\/people\/faculty\/bios\/richard-purcell.html\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Purcell<\/a><\/strong>, Assistant Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania<\/em><\/p>\n<p>If <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">President Barack Obama<\/a> crystallizes the intersection of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-racial_America\" target=\"_blank\">postrace<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Post-Blackness\" target=\"_blank\">postblack<\/a> idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between the two than the shooting death of seventeen-year-old <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trayvon_Martin\" target=\"_blank\">Trayvon Martin<\/a> on February 26, 2012. What Trayvon Martin\u2019s death has brought to the fore is what contemporary intellectuals are attempting to think when they think postblackness and, for that matter, postrace. What way of understanding race knowledge in our present does postblackness offer us, especially in a postrace era? The answer: both blindness and insight. Through a meditation on the relationship between Trayvon Martin, postrace, and postblackness, this essay aims to demonstrate this blindness and insight. On the one hand, postblackness has the potential to provide a bulwark against the persistent <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Biological_determinism\" target=\"_blank\">biologisms<\/a> in contemporary race thinking. Yet, it is also used in our postrace era as a term to indulge in a weaker mode of criticism: debunking\u2014a critical posture that has allowed critics to ignore and even circulate more insidious forms of race thinking.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/boundary2.dukejournals.org\/content\/40\/3\/139.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Trayvon, Postblackness, and the Postrace Dilemma boundary 2: an international journal of literature and culture Volume 40, Number 3 (Fall 2013) pages 139-161 DOI: 10.1215\/01903659-2367072 Richard Purcell, Assistant Professor of English Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania If President Barack Obama crystallizes the intersection of postrace and postblack idealism, nothing has exposed the fraught relationship between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,12,63,1196,8,23674,20],"tags":[11294,11293,16308,10143],"class_list":["post-34612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-social-justice","category-usa","tag-boundary-2","tag-boundary-2-an-international-journal-of-literature-and-culture","tag-richard-purcell","tag-trayvon-martin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49884,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34612\/revisions\/49884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}