The Threat of Race
Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism
Blackwell Manifestos
1. Edition October 2008
408 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
In this series major critics make timely interventions to address important concepts and subjects. Written accessibly and with verve, these books set out to engage the broadest range of readers, from undergraduates to postgraduates, university teachers and general readers -all those, in short, interested in ongoing debates and controversies in the humanities and social sciences. David Theo Goldberg, author of The Racial State and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning, writes about race and its exclusionary, and violent expressions, historically produced and contemporarily articulated, yet so often in denial around the world. Here, Goldberg presents a framework to understand racially driven neoliberalisms and neoliberally fueled racisms: racial regionalizations and critical regionalisms, enduring occupations and permanently temporary states, Euro-mimesis and Muslimania, political theology of race and racial secularization, racial compulsions and their resistances, socialities of the skin and racial evaporations, racisms without racism and neo-neoliberalism.
Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory, The
Threat of Race explores how the concept of race has been
historically produced and how it continues to be articulated, if
often denied, in today's world.
* A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar of
critical race theory
* Explores how the concept of race has been historically produced
and how it continues to be articulated - if often denied - in
today's world
* Argues that it is the neoliberal society that fuels new forms
of racism
* Surveys race dynamics throughout various regions of the world -
from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America,
and from Israel and Palestine to the United States
Author's Note xii
1 Buried, Alive 1
2 "Killing Me Softly": Civility/Race/Violence 32
3 Deva-Stating Discriminations, Discriminating Devastations (On Racial Americanization) 66
4 Targets of Opportunity (On Racial Palestinianization) 106
5 Precipitating Evaporation (On Racial Europeanization) 151
6 Revealing Alchemies (On Racial Latinamericanization) 199
7 A Political Theology of Race (On Racial Southafricanization) 245
8 Enduring Occupations (On Racial Neoliberalism) 327
Index of Authors 377
Index of Keywords 382
indeed in the hands of Africans, and only they will determine if it
is a successful future or a return to second fiddle of human
history ... At the same time, I am sure, those who know Africa will
realize how much this book reflect the reality on the ground. A
reality that will surprise the world in the years to come." (South
World, 1 October 2011)
"This is powerful stuff. The author intends no scholarly
dispassion, no footnoted academic treatise. Rather he presents an
impassioned argument at length, replete with examples, full of word
games to emphasize a point. There is fire in this work. The book is
interesting, written with passion and obvious pleasure in playing
with the language. The Threat of Race is a strong addition to the
growing library of anti-globalism, [and] anti-neoliberal
critiques." Indigenious Peoples and Issues Website
"Written with the same clarity and masterly command of contemporary
scholarship as his now classic Racist Culture and The
Racial State, and powerfully articulating the tensions of the
postcolonial societies in the North and the South, David Theo
Goldberg's new book is likely to transform the lively debate
on the construction of "race" as category and its
relationship to historical processes of
"racialization"."
-Etienne Balibar, Paris X Nanterre and University of
California
"A systematic, wonderfully readable and thoroughly radical
assessment of the politics of race that offers a unique perspective
on where critical race theory stands at the moment, and the
questions just beginning to emerge for the future."
-Achille Mbembe, author of On the
Postcolony
