Editorial: Post-racial Imaginaries – connecting the pieces
In the deluge of the ‘posts’ that have littered the critical scene over the last three decades, ‘post-race’ has arrived quite late in the day. After the endless sparring over the meanings of the...
View ArticleThe creation and intepretation of ‘mixed’ categories in Britain today
The growth and recognition of ‘Mixed’ in Britain It is difficult to imagine a society (such as Britain) in which ethnic and racial categories, and the powerful imagery and ideologies associated with...
View Article‘Racial Terror in America’: The Racist Roots of Ron Paul’s Anti-Imperialism
There’s been a great deal of confusion over the recent revelation that Ron Paul, the only candidate in either party running on an anti-imperialist platform and who favors an end to the police state, is...
View ArticleBetween Abstract and Barack
There is not a seamless line connecting Martin Luther King, Jr.’s, 1968 politics to Barack Obama’s 2008 election. Thinking about abstraction in art helps to explain why African American artists could...
View ArticleState of Play (2011)
A photographic series on Obama’s Presidency (2009 -) by Roshini Kempadoo Moments of history, seminal moments, like noise to our senses are brought to this body, via a screen and a voice – here, this...
View ArticleRacial ideology and the production of knowledge about health
Introduction Racial terminology and its associated assumptions pervade the discourses of health policy, practice and research. The language utilised within and across these discourses emerge from both...
View ArticlePre-Race Post-Race: Climate Change and Planetary Humanism
The present intensified attention to climate marks an unfolding site of critical practices and new knowledge that offer incitements for reconsider questions of race and human difference. In the...
View ArticleFear of a ‘Black’ President: Obama, Racial Panic and the Presidential Sign
I’ve been wonderin’ why People livin’ in fear Of my shade (Or my hi top fade) I’m not the one that’s runnin’ But they got me on the run Treat me like…
View ArticlePost-Racial Pessimism: Therapolitics and the Anti-Utopian Present
Obama and the idiom of post-raciality are practically synonymous, but the election of a ‘mixed-race’ US president was bound to provoke both celebration and scepticism. For those who have spent a...
View Article‘Mixture is a Neoliberal Good’: Mixed-Race Metaphors and Post-Racial Masks
This short article examines the various critical commentaries on the legacy of Fanon’s explorative, suggestive and provocative work. Focusing on an oft-repeated element of Fanon’s work that has rarely...
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