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Contemporary Race Theory and the Problem of History: A Critique
Mugubane, Zine
http://nonsite.org/contemporary-race-theory-and-the-problem-of-history-a-critique/Date Written: 2022-05-11 Year Published: 2022 Resource Type: Article Cx Number: CX24639 The inability of contemporary race theory to fully account for and explain (rather than just label) the social dynamics that produce and reproduce inequality stems from two core assumptions that form the bedrock for this taxonomic project. The first is that anti-Black racism is an unalterable feature of American life - hence the impetus towards labeling and naming the different and ostensibly novel forms that racism takes. The second is that class analysis in inadequate theoretically, and class struggle is politically outmoded. Subject Headings |