{"id":41918,"date":"2015-07-25T02:20:27","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T02:20:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41918"},"modified":"2017-01-28T01:22:54","modified_gmt":"2017-01-28T01:22:54","slug":"thinking-post-racial-ideology-transnationally-the-contemporary-politics-of-race-and-indigeneity-in-the-americas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41918","title":{"rendered":"Thinking \u2018Post-Racial\u2019 Ideology Transnationally: The Contemporary Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0896920515591175\" target=\"_blank\">Thinking \u2018Post-Racial\u2019 Ideology Transnationally: The Contemporary Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crs.sagepub.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Critical Sociology<\/a><br \/>\nPublished online before print 2015-07-03<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1177\/0896920515591175\" target=\"_blank\">10.1177\/0896920515591175<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edpolicystudies.ualberta.ca\/en\/People\/Faculty\/Alexandre%20Da%20Costa.aspx\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa<\/strong><\/a>, Assistant Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education<br \/>\n<em>University of Alberta, Canada<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Americas\" target=\"_blank\">Americas<\/a>. It argues for the necessity of a transnational frame when examining the related, yet historically variable expressions of post-racial ideology and politics across diverse moments and contexts in the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Western_Hemisphere\" target=\"_blank\">Western Hemisphere<\/a>. The article examines various modalities of \u2018post-racial\u2019 thinking and politics, including <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=14551\" target=\"_blank\">mestizaje<\/a><\/em> (racial and cultural mixture), colorblindness, and multiculturalism, elaborating their interrelated characteristics in relation to the silencing and minimization of racism and the elision of the role race plays in maintaining structural inequalities. The intersections between the post-racial and racial neoliberalism are highlighted as are the implications of post-racial ideologies for anti-racist and decolonial politics. Special issue article contributions are also described and situated.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/crs.sagepub.com\/content\/early\/2015\/06\/30\/0896920515591175.full.pdf+html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thinking \u2018Post-Racial\u2019 Ideology Transnationally: The Contemporary Politics of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas Critical Sociology Published online before print 2015-07-03 DOI: 10.1177\/0896920515591175 Alexandre Emboaba Da Costa, Assistant Professor, Theoretical, Cultural and International Studies in Education University of Alberta, Canada This article introduces the special issue on post-racial ideologies and politics in the Americas. 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