Launch of 'Are We All Postracial Yet?'

WiSER invites you to a lunchtime book launch

of David Theo Goldberg’s new book Are We All Postracial Yet?

In discussion with Achille Mbembe and chaired by Nomboniso Gasa.

From the book jacket of David Theo Goldberg’s Are We All Postracial Yet? Debating Race:

'We hear much talk about the advent of a ‘postracial’ age. The election of Barack Obama as President of the United States was held by many to be proof that we have once and for all moved beyond race. The Swedish government has even gone so far as to erase all references to race from its legislative documents.  However, as Ferguson, and countless social statistics show, beneath such claims lurk more sinister shadows of the racial – everyday, institutional and structural racisms persist and renew themselves beneath the veneer of nonraciality. A conundrum lies at its very heart – as seen when the election of a black President was taken to be the pinnacle of postraciality. In this sparkling essay, David Theo Goldberg seeks to explain this conundrum, and reveals how the postracial is merely the afterlife of race, not its demise. Postraciality is the new logic of raciality.'

David Theo Goldberg is Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and Professor of Comparative Literature and Anthropology at the University of California, Irvine.