.... In a postracial office, race is denied as a salient factor in decision making through an emphasis on work quality, even while worker quality is attributed to race. This chapter explores the multiple ways that race is made meaningful in such an environment. postrace cognitive work software labor...

... This chapter introduces two different ways of imagining the postracial. On the one hand, the postracial names a state and place beyond racial difference and inequality, or a condition advancing toward this state. This version of the post-racial overlooks how over-confident narratives, especially...

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... subject, and in the objects of jokes in the United States. It uses this analysis to discuss why minstrelsy is still practiced today, and why in a supposedly postracial era in the United States the donning of blackface, both professionally and by amateurs, has actually increased. The resurgence...

... This chapter considers the significance and impact of assemblages of diversity on meanings of race and ethnicity in advertising and society. Especially in light of demographic shifts reported in the 2010 U.S. Census, the notion of a “postracial” America underscored by Obama’s presidency...

..., and theories. Ultimately, Reed gestures toward alternative frames for sustained queer engagements with race, gender, and sexuality that address how racialized embodiment shapes and is shaped by interpersonal and institutional racism, refusing myths of a postracial state. spectacular fetishization...

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... The introduction to Hope Draped in Black suggests that the postracial rhetoric around Barack Obama’s ascendancy exemplifies well-entrenched attachments to progress and redemption. By providing a reading of McCain’s 2008 concession speech and Obama’s response to the George Zimmerman verdict...

..., and remembrance. Stanley Kramer’s film Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner prompts the viewer to align black freedom struggles with a postracial, forward-gazing imaginary that downplays the connections between race, class, and gender. Sidney Poitier’s character, the chapter argues, anticipates yearnings for a position...

... of information on foreign populations of potential customers and to evaluate the desired traits of future cognitive workers. In a postracial office, race is denied as a salient factor in decision making through an emphasis on work quality, even while worker quality is attributed to race. This chapter explores...