{"id":650,"date":"2009-09-08T21:39:26","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T21:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=650"},"modified":"2016-06-23T23:43:48","modified_gmt":"2016-06-23T23:43:48","slug":"signs-of-race-in-poststructuralism-toward-a-transformative-theory-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=650","title":{"rendered":"Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race"},"content":{"rendered":"

Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race<\/strong><\/em> <\/a><\/p>\n

University Press of America, Inc.<\/em><\/a>
\nMarch 2009
\n176 pages
\n6 1\/2 x 9 1\/2
\nHardback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4505-8
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4506-5<\/p>\n

Robert Young<\/strong>, Associate Professor of English
\nUniversity of Alabama<\/em>
\n\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race.\u00a0 The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct?\u00a0 The answer is that race works because it operates like a commodity, and like any commodity, as long as it generates value (understood in the widest possible sense: economic, political, and cultural-ideological value), it will remain in circulation.<\/strong> \u00a0This study should contribute to our understanding of race by linking questions of use value to exchange value.<\/p>\n

Robert Young is associate professor of English at University of Alabama.\u00a0 He specializes in African-American literary and cultural theory.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n