This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct? The answer is that race works because it operates like a commodity, and like any commodity, as long as it generates value (understood in the widest possible sense: economic, political, and cultural-ideological value), it will remain in circulation. This study should contribute to our understanding of race by linking questions of use value to exchange value.
This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race. The author positions this fundamental question at the heart of his project: why does race still work if it is commonly misunderstood to be a social construct? The answer is that race works because it operates like a commodity, and like any commodity, as long as it generates value (understood in the widest possible sense: economic, political, and cultural-ideological value), it will remain in circulation. This study should contribute to our understanding of race by linking questions of use value to exchange value.
Part 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Chapter 1: Race as Commodity Fetish Part 4 Chapter 2: Putting Materialism back into Race Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race Part 5 Chapter 3: The Linguistic Turn, Materialism, and Race: The Postmodern Crisis in African-American Literary Theory and Richard Wright's Critique of Ideology Part 6 Chapter 4: The Politics of Race and Psychoanalysis: Richard Wright's Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity in Savage Holiday Part 7 Chapter 5: Oral Textualities, Oral (Blues) Poetics, and Oral Erotics: Disabling the Exchange Economy in Gayl Jones' Corregidora Part 8 Bibliography
Part 1 Acknowledgments Part 2 Introduction Part 3 Chapter 1: Race as Commodity Fetish Part 4 Chapter 2: Putting Materialism back into Race Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race Part 5 Chapter 3: The Linguistic Turn, Materialism, and Race: The Postmodern Crisis in African-American Literary Theory and Richard Wright's Critique of Ideology Part 6 Chapter 4: The Politics of Race and Psychoanalysis: Richard Wright's Critique of Bourgeois Subjectivity in Savage Holiday Part 7 Chapter 5: Oral Textualities, Oral (Blues) Poetics, and Oral Erotics: Disabling the Exchange Economy in Gayl Jones' Corregidora Part 8 Bibliography
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