COLORBLIND TOOLS: GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES OF RACIAL POWER
AUTHOR – Marzia Milazzo PUBLISHER – UJ Press
COLORBLIND TOOLS Global Technologies of Racial Power
Bringing together a capacious archive of texts on race produced in Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Panama, the United States, and South Africa from multiple disciplines and genres, Marzia Milazzo in Colorblind Tools uncovers transnational continuities in structural racism and white supremacist discourse from the inception of colonial modernity to the present. In the process, she traces the global workings of what she calls colorblind tools: technologies and strategies that at once camouflage and reproduce white domination. Whether examining Rijno van der Riet’s defence of slavery in the Cape Colony, discourses of racial mixture in Latin American eugenics and their reverberations in contemporary scholarship, the pitfalls of white ‘antiracism’, or Chicana indigenist aesthetics, Milazzo illustrates how white people collectively disavow racism to Bringing together a capacious archive of texts Mexico, Panama, the United States, and Sout and genres, Marzia Milazzo in Colorblind continuities in structural racism and white inception of colonial modernity to the prese global workings of what she calls colorblind t that at once camouflage and reproduce white Rijno van der Riet’s defense of slavery in the mixture in Latin American eugenics and their scholarship, the pitfalls of white “antiracism,” Milazzo illustrates how white people collect power across national boundaries, and how be reproduced even in some decolonial litera study proves that the disavowal of racism i constitutive technology of racism. It is a too ISBN § 9780906785577 (Paperback) Price § R 375 (Paperback) maintain power across national boundaries, and how anti-black and colonial logics can be reproduced even in some decolonial literatures. Milazzo’s groundbreaking study proves that the disavowal of racism is not a new phenomenon, but a constitutive technology of racism. It is a tool the master cannot do without. ISBN – 9780906785577 (Paperback) Price – R375(Paperback) COLORBLIND TOOLS: Global Technologies of AUTHOR § Marzia Milazzo PUBLISHER § UJ Press
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