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
Table of Content
Preface and Acknowledgments vi
Author’s Note xii
1 Buried, Alive 1
2 ‘Killing Me Softly’: Civility/Race/Violence 32
3 Deva-Stating Discriminations, Discriminating Devastations (On Racial Americanization) 66
4 Targets of Opportunity (On Racial Palestinianization) 106
5 Precipitating Evaporation (On Racial Europeanization) 151
6 Revealing Alchemies (On Racial Latinamericanization) 199
7 A Political Theology of Race (On Racial Southafricanization) 245
8 Enduring Occupations (On Racial Neoliberalism) 327
Index of Authors 377
Index of Keywords 382
About the author
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).
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