Racial subjects1997
writing on race in America
by David Theo Goldberg
Arguing that racism is best understood as exclusionary relations of power rather than simply as hateful expressions, David Theo Goldberg analyzes contemporary expressions of race and racism. He engages political economy, culture, and everyday material life, against a background analysis of profound demographic shifts and changing class formation and relations.
Issues covered in Racial Subjects include the history of changing racial categories over the last two hundred years of U.S. census taking, multiculturalism, the experience of being racially mixed, the rise of new black public intellectuals, race and the law in the wake of the O. J. Simpson verdict, relations between blacks and Jews, and affirmative action.
As one of America's foremost theoreticians of race, Goldberg heralds the...