3 Race, Postrace and the False Promises of the Postracial State
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Nathan Kerrigan
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the problematics around notions of postrace. This critique lays the foundations for exposing the dangers of ‘colourblind’ reasoning around ‘race’, while setting a rationale for a critical enquiry to address the void in addressing ‘race’ in existing theorising around late modernity. In the context of late modernity, postracial society, as the designated goal, fails in its efforts to construct notions of postracial social dynamics in the wider public consciousness. Thus, the state politics surrounding the postracial ‘ideal’ has not moved society towards a ‘postracial’ future, but inevitably, and unwittingly, produces a resurgence in ethnocentric nationalist ideologies.
Abstract
This chapter focuses on the problematics around notions of postrace. This critique lays the foundations for exposing the dangers of ‘colourblind’ reasoning around ‘race’, while setting a rationale for a critical enquiry to address the void in addressing ‘race’ in existing theorising around late modernity. In the context of late modernity, postracial society, as the designated goal, fails in its efforts to construct notions of postracial social dynamics in the wider public consciousness. Thus, the state politics surrounding the postracial ‘ideal’ has not moved society towards a ‘postracial’ future, but inevitably, and unwittingly, produces a resurgence in ethnocentric nationalist ideologies.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: Zygmunt Bauman, Liquidity and Racism 1
- Revisiting the Postmodernity/Liquid Modernity Debate 26
- Race, Postrace and the False Promises of the Postracial State 50
- Liquid Racism and Brexit 73
- Liquid Racism and Education 95
- Liquid Racism and Road Culture(s) 117
- Conclusion: The viscosity of contemporary racism(s) 149
- References 165
- Index 189
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- Introduction: Zygmunt Bauman, Liquidity and Racism 1
- Revisiting the Postmodernity/Liquid Modernity Debate 26
- Race, Postrace and the False Promises of the Postracial State 50
- Liquid Racism and Brexit 73
- Liquid Racism and Education 95
- Liquid Racism and Road Culture(s) 117
- Conclusion: The viscosity of contemporary racism(s) 149
- References 165
- Index 189
