Racists Beware: Uncovering Racial Politics in the Post Modern Society: 21 (Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education, 21) - Softcover

Dei, George J. Sefa

Softcover

ISBN 10: 908790276X ISBN 13: 9789087902766

Publisher: Sense Publishers, 2008

Synopsis

With admirable clarity and directness, George Dei exposes the tendency towards the racial re-feudalization of the contemporary public sphere in Canada and, by association, other post-industrial societies. He points to the enormous opportunity costs imposed on racial minorities in the new millennium as a consequence. In RACISTS BEWARE: UNCOVERING RACIAL POLITICS IN THE POSTMODERN SOCIETY, Dei identifies and subjects to close scrutiny the new race-bending logics of what he calls "postmodern" societies in which the dwellers of the suburbs and members of the itinerant white professional middle class (the great beneficiaries of late capitalism and neoliberalization of the economy) now have become the new social plaintiff turning the complaint of racial inequality and discrimination on the heads of those most oppressed. If Gayatri Spivak asks "Can the subaltern speak?" then Dei brilliantly poses the question: "When will Anglo-dominant groups, even critical ones, ever listen?" This book is likely to provoke and influence discussion on racial antagonism for a long, long time to come.

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About the Author

George J. Sefa Dei is Professor, Department of Sociology in Education, University of Toronto.

Edition details

• Publisher: Sense Publishers
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 908790276X
• ISBN 13: 9789087902766
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 208