After Race: Racism After Multiculturalism

by Antonia Darder, Rodolfo D. Torres

Overview

After Race pushes us beyond the old "race vs. class" debates to delve deeper into the structural conditions that spawn racism. Darder and Torres place the study of racism forthrightly within the context of contemporary capitalism. While agreeing with those who have argued that the concept of "race" does not have biological validity, they go further to insist that the concept also holds little political, symbolic, or descriptive value when employed in social science and policy research.
Darder and Torres argue for the need to jettison the concept of "race," while calling adamantly for the critical study of racism. They maintain that an understanding of structural class inequality is fundamentally germane to comprehending the growing significance of racism in capitalist America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780814782682
Publisher:	New York University Press
Publication date:	08/01/2004
Pages:	189
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.63(d)

About the Author

Antonia Darder is professor of educational policy studies and Latino studies at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Her books include Culture and Power in the Classroom, Latinos and Education, and The Latino Studies Reader.

Rodolfo D. Torres is associate professor of Chicano-Latino studies, political science, and planning, policy, and design at the University of California, Irvine. Among his books are Latino Metropolis and Savage State: Welfare Capitalism & Inequality.

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	After Race: An Introduction	1
1	Does "Race" Matter? Transatlantic Perspectives on Racism after "Race Relations"	25
2	Racialized Metropolis: Theorizing Asian American and Latino Identities and Ethnicities in Southern California	47
3	Language Rights and the Empire of Capital	67
4	Manufacturing Destinies: The Racialized Discourse of High-Stakes Testing	78
5	What's So Critical about Critical Race Theory? A Conceptual Interrogation	97
6	Mapping Latino Studies: Critical Reflections on Class and Social Theory	118
	Notes	143
	Bibliography	157
	Index	177
	About the Authors	189

What People are Saying About This

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"Offers fascinating new insights to the longstanding debate over racial discrimination in the United States. This important book will undoubtedly be influential in helping us analyze some of the most pressing civil rights issues of the twenty-first century."

-Kevin R. Johnson,University of California, Davis, School of Law

"A very thoughtful analysis of the need to move beyond the traditional black/white paradigm to address the dynamic aspects of racialized inequalities. . . . This provocative book will be widely discussed and debated."

-William Julius Wilson,Harvard University

"This book joins a growing body of work that challenges essentialist ideas about race while also rejecting the colorblind and end-of-racism theses of conservative commentators...The authors have done an excellent job of articulating the implications of what it means to bring class back into critical race theory."

-Choice,

"...It is a MUST read for any educator."

-The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

Editorial Reviews

"“...It is a MUST read for any educator."

The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

"This book joins a growing body of work that challenges essentialist ideas about race while also rejecting the colorblind and end-of-racism theses of conservative commentators...The authors have done an excellent job of articulating the implications of what it means to bring class back into critical race theory."

Choice

"A very thoughtful analysis of the need to move beyond the traditional black/white paradigm to address the dynamic aspects of racialized inequalities. . . . This provocative book will be widely discussed and debated."

William Julius Wilson

"Offers fascinating new insights to the longstanding debate over racial discrimination in the United States. This important book will undoubtedly be influential in helping us analyze some of the most pressing civil rights issues of the twenty-first century."

Kevin R. Johnson

...It is a MUST read for any educator.”

-The Society for the Psychological Study of Social Issues

"Offers fascinating new insights to the longstanding debate over racial discrimination in the United States. This important book will undoubtedly be influential in helping us analyze some of the most pressing civil rights issues of the twenty-first century."

-Kevin R. Johnson,University of California, Davis, School of Law

"A very thoughtful analysis of the need to move beyond the traditional black/white paradigm to address the dynamic aspects of racialized inequalities. . . . This provocative book will be widely discussed and debated."

-William Julius Wilson,Harvard University

From the Publisher