...Sonali Thakkar; Kyla Schuller; Jules Gill-Peterson This article traces the emergence of racial plasticity in the discourse of midcentury liberal internationalism and antiracism, focusing on the 1950 Statement on Race by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). The author...

... individualism, and inclusive civic race remains nationalism. Antiracism becomes a nationally recognized social value and, for the first time, gets absorbed into U.S. governmentality. Impor- a procedure tantly, postwar liberal racial formation sutures...

... counterpart to the irruption of Marxist humanism in Eastern Europe and the humanist controversy in France during the 1950s in the now marginalized work of Raya Dunayeskaya, which brought Marxist humanism, feminism, and antiracism into a powerful interarticulation. The essay argues that postsocialism...

... and the National Football League attempt to rebrand capital accumulation and exploitation with racial liberalism's deputies in pocket, and universities issue dematerialized antiracism statements. Settlers fear speculative study, so they ban books (in prison). 70 They draw on epistemologies that screech...

..., setting up a law that differentiates “Indians” (as people who can be tried by any tribal court) from everyone else (who are not subject to Indigenous criminal laws). 54 But it is important to read this law beyond and outside the lens of “official US antiracisms,” which, Jodi Melamed explains, have...

... with anyone else for grants? Colleges would still have to choose their own student body based on a variety of contested factors, but at the very least the applicants would not be barred from entry into campus because of a lack of spaces. In other words, racism and antiracism is not solved...

... of identifying antiracist strategies suited to the unique racial dispensation of the present. At one end of the spectrum, Paul Gilroy repudiates the very project of antiracism, calling instead for “an emphatically postracial humanism.” In his view, the only...

... dreaming, which comes back to haunt the metropole as traces of an otherwise unthink- able union of feminism, anticolonial struggle, antiracism, and queerness. Poly Styrene’s open-­mouthed yell in “Oh Bondage, Up Yours” is part of a call-­and-­response system of yelps, cries, and screams...

..., such as mutation —a category of genetic distinction developed in Marvel Comics’ X-Men series (1963) to describe a cadre of superhumans gifted with abilities due to an evolution in their biology—accomplish meaningful cultural work in the service of antiracism and antihomophobia that can too easily be dismissed...

... solid with the anti-­racist cause” (199), it is true that a certain amount of myopia characterized such claims. See Antonino D’Ambrosio, “White Riot or Right Riot: A Look Back at Punk Rock and Antiracism,” in Let Fury Have the Hour: The Punk Rock...

... Social Text 115 ∙ Summer 2013 1 5 Multi­culturalism,” Social Text, 89 (2006): 1 – 24. For a very different example, see also Walter Benn Michaels “Plots against America: Neoliberalism and Antiracism,” American Literary History 18, no. 2...

... the political to the economic has amassed a range of strategies toward individual and group incorporation, and according to Jodi Melamed, neoliberalism attaches itself to radical modes of resistance that it then subsumes and subverts toward economic gains. Radical antiracisms transmute into neoliberal gestures...

... thousand school children per day and free medical clinics that administered preventative health care, as well as housing and social services. 28 These efforts reverberated transnationally, giving rise to global consciousness about the important connections between physical well-being and antiracism work...

..., and engaging in free political education workshops. Many who joined Occupy did not already have a developed critique of policing. Participants committed to police abolition and antiracism cultivated conversations about not calling the police. This was inconsistent and imperfect, but it introduced many people...

... discourse was not only in service of an imagined antiracism but also, by the late 1950s and early 1960s, an attempt to essentially link Portugal to its remaining African colonies.31 For example, Presença, a propaganda magazine of the 1960s and 1970s, printed in color, often featured a pair...

... of mobilization against colonial and racial violence across Asia, Africa, and Latin America—“the worldwide black revolution!” Malcolm X’s support for Palestinian liberation signified his commitment to Black internationalism, antiracism, and the Third World anticolonial struggle. This internationalist...

... of anti-Black racism domestically by presenting itself as an enlightened liberator. 22 This initiated an era of US imperialism defined by what Jodi Melamed calls “official antiracist discourse,” deploying symbolic antiracism while deepening structural racism. 23 Dylan Rodríguez offers additional...

... by Foucault, the imperative of identity politics resembles the formulation that “we must defend ourselves against society.” Antiracism, antisexism, anti-imperialism, these were all identity politics, each asserting a history of subjugation that challenged the “Jupiterian” narrative of the pax...

... becoming is about a kind of visibility in liberal political systems in which difference in multicultural structures is a veritable seat at the table of democratic inclusion, not as people of color but as people of faith. It is thus that the language of racism and hence antiracism is foreclosed...

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