Ebook: The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization : Toward a Political Sense of Mourning
Author: Alfred Frankowski
- Tags: United States--Race relations--History., SOC001000, SOC031000, SOC051000
- Series: Philosophy of Race
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Lexington Books
- City: Lanham, United States
- Language: English
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The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Sense of Mourning attempts to show how post-racial discourse, in general, and post-racial memory, specifically, operates as a context through which the memorialization of anti-black violence and the production of new forms of this violence are connected. Alfred Frankowski argues that aside from being symbolically meaningful, the post-racial context requires that memorialization of anti-black violence in the past produces memory as a type of forgetting. By challenging many of tenants of the critical turn in political philosophy and aesthetics, he argues against a politics of reconciliation and for a political sense of mourning that amplifies the universality of violence embedded in our contemporary sensibility. He argues for a sense of mourning that requires that we deepen our understanding of how remembrance and resistance to oppression remain linked and necessitates a fluid and active reconfiguration relative to the context in which this oppression exists.
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