Title Represent and destroy : rationalizing violence in the new racial capitalism / Jodi Melamed

Published Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, [2011] ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxiv, 274 pages) Series Difference incorporated Difference incorporated. Contents Introduction : producing discourses of certainty with official antiracisms -- 1. Killing sympathies : racial liberalism and race novels -- 2. Counterinsurgent canon wars and surviving liberal multiculturalism -- 3. Making global citizens : neoliberal multiculturalism and literary value -- 4. Difference as strategy in international Indigenous peoples' movements -- Epilogue : rematerializing antiracism Summary "In the global convulsions in the aftermath of World War II, one dominant world racial order broke apart and a new one emerged. This is the story Jodi Melamed tells in Represent and Destroy, portraying the postwar racial break as a transition from white supremacist modernity to a formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity in which racial violence works normatively by policing representations of difference. Following the institutionalization of literature as a privileged domain for Americans to get to know difference--to describe, teach, and situate themselves with respect to race--Melamed focuses on literary studies as a cultural technology for transmitting liberal racial orders. She examines official antiracisms in the United States and finds that these were key to ratifying the country's global ascendancy. She shows how racial liberalism, liberal multiculturalism, and neoliberal multiculturalism made racism appear to be disappearing, even as they incorporated the assumptions of global capitalism into accepted notions of racial equality. Yet Represent and Destroy also recovers an anticapitalist "race radical" tradition that provides a materialist opposition to official antiracisms in the postwar United States--a literature that sounds out the violence of liberal racial orders, relinks racial inequality to material conditions, and compels desire for something better than U.S. multiculturalism"-- Provided by publisher Analysis Capitalism and race Race radicalism Anti-capitalism Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-260) and index Notes Print version record Subject Literature and race -- Political aspects -- United States Race in literature -- Social aspects Race in literature -- Political aspects Neoliberalism and literature. Racism -- History -- 20th century Racism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Multiculturalism -- History -- 20th century Multiculturalism -- United States -- History -- 20th century Racism in literature. Multiculturalism in literature. Anti-racism -- Economic aspects -- United States Literature and society. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Violence in Society. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations. Literature and society. Multiculturalism. Multiculturalism in literature. Neoliberalism and literature. Racism. Racism in literature. Neoliberalismus Rassismus United States. USA Genre/Form Electronic books History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780816678624 0816678626

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