Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Chapter 1 Representation: Class ambiguity and racial subjectivity; Chapter 2 The everyday and ordinary: Developing a theory of race; Chapter 3 Cody's, Foucault, and race; Chapter 4 Working together: Conditional subjectivity; Chapter 5 Walking the streets; Chapter 6 Passing and mixing: Challenging the racial subject; Bibliography; Index
Summary
An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal instruments in much of our daily lives. The discussion ranges over a wide theoretical landscape, bringing to bear the insights of Wittgenstein, Stanley Cavell, Michel Foucault, Cornel West and others to the dilemmas represented by the continuing social practice of race. The book lays the theoretica
