Book description
Written by a renowned scholar of critical race theory,
The Threat of Race
explores how the concept of race has been historically produced and how
it continues to be articulated, if often denied, in today's world.
- A major new study of race and racism by a renowned scholar of
critical race theory
- Explores how the concept of race has been historically produced
and how it continues to be articulated - if often denied - in
today's world
- Argues that it is the neoliberal society that fuels new forms of racism
- Surveys race dynamics throughout various regions of the world -
from Western and Northern Europe, South Africa and Latin America,
and from Israel and Palestine to the United States
David Theo Goldberg
directs the systemwide University of California Humanities Research
Institute. He is also Professor of Comparative Literature and
Criminology, Law and Society, as well as a Fellow of the Critical Theory
Institute, at the University of California, Irvine. He has authored
several books, including
The Racial State
(Blackwell, 2002) and
Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning
(Blackwell, 1993).
