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>> 207 Notes Notes to the Introduction 1. So many books and programs from the 1980s and 1990s (and about those eras) could be in this list, but here are a few notable ones: Nelson George, Post-Soul Nation (New York: Viking, 2004); Toni Morrison, ed., Race-ing Justice, En-Gendering Equality: Essays on Anita Hill, Clarence Thomas, and the Social Construction of Reality (New York: Random House, 1992); Cornel West, Race Matters (New York: Vintage, 1994); bell hooks, Yearning: Race, Gender and Cultural Politics (Boston: South End Press, 1999); Mark Anthony Neal, Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic (New York: Routledge, 2001); The Black Public Sphere Collective, eds. The Black Public Sphere (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995); Marlon Riggs, dir., Black Is, Black Ain’t, DVD (California Newsreel, 1995). 2. Again, while this list will not be all-inclusive, a sampling of work discussing these emergences includes: Paula Massoud, ed., The Spike Lee Reader (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2008); Paul Taylor, “Post-Black, Old Black,” African American Review 41 no. 4: 625–40; Jennifer Harris and Elwood Watson, eds., The Oprah Phenomenon (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2009); Maureen Mahon, Right To Rock: The Black Rock Coalition and the Cultural Politics of Race (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004); S. Craig Watkins, Representing: Hip Hop Culture and the Production of Black Cinema (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999); Jacqueline Bobo, Black Women as Cultural Readers (New York: Columbia University Press, 1995); Toni Morrison, Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the American Literary Imagination (New York: Vintage, 1993); Michael Eric Dyson, Reflecting Black: African American Cultural Criticism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993). 3. Patricia Williams, The Alchemy of Race and Rights: Diary of A Mad Law Professor (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1992); Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character (New York: Harper Perennial, 1991); Ellis Cose, The Rage of A Privileged Class (New York: Harper Collins, 1993); Michael P. Rogin and Robert Post, eds. Race and Representation: Affirmative Action (New York: Zone Books, 208 > 209 17. See discussions in: Alsutany, “Selling”; Barbara Biesecker, “No Time for Mourning : The Rhetorical Production of the Melancholic Citizen-Subject in the War on Terror,” Philosophy and Rhetoric 40, no.1 (2007): 147–69; Giroux, “From the ‘Culture Wars’”; Bruce B. Lawrence, “Conjuring with Islam, II,” Journal of American History 89, no. 2 (2002): 485–97; Melani McAlister, “A Cultural History of the War Without End,” Journal of American History 89, no. 2 (2002): 439–55. 18. See studies summarized in Marta Tienda, Sigal Alon, and Sunny Niu, “Affirmative Action and the Texas Top 10 Percent Admission Law: Balancing Equity and Access to Higher Education,” February 2008, http://theop.princeton.edu/reports/ wp/AffirmativeAction_TopTen.pdf. See also Nicholas Webster, “Analysis of the Ten Percent Plan,” Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race, 2007, http://kirwaninstitute .osu.edu/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/Texas-Ten-Percent_style.pdf. 19. David Roediger, “White Workers, New Democrats, and Affirmative Action,” in The House That Race Built, ed. Wahneema Lubiano (New York: Vintage, 1998) 48–65. See multiple essays on and analysis of economic and social data that suggest that class-not-race approaches have failed to shrink racial gaps in education, jobs, and wealth in “Revisiting William Julius Wilson’s The Declining Significance of Race,” Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare 39, no.1 (2012). 20. Liddy West, “A Complete Guide to Hipster Racism,” Jezebel.com, April 26, 2012,http://jezebel.com/5905291/a-complete-guide-to-hipster-racism. 21. Channing Kennedy, “Understanding Hipster Racism: Lester Bang’s 1979 ‘White Noise Supremacists,’” ColorLines.com, April 27, 2012, http://colorlines.com/ archives/2012/04/hipster_racism_isnt_new_read_1979s_white_noise_supremacists .html. 22. Bangs’s article was reproduced at http://www.mariabuszek.com/kcai/PoMoSeminar /Readings/BangsWhite.pdf. 23. West, “A Complete Guide.” 24. Kennedy, “Understanding Hipster Racism.” 25. There are many discussions and investigations of the impact of race on society and individual life chances, from research on the racial disparities in public health (e.g., the Kaiser Foundation provides regular updates on minority health, accessible at http://www.kff.org/minorityhealth/index.cfm) to racial bias in the criminal justice system (e.g., Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness [New York: New Press, 2012]), the “achievement gap” in K–12 education (e.g., Jessica Rebell and Michael A. Wolf, NCLB at the Crossroads: Re-examining the Federal Effort to Close the Achievement Gap [New York: Teachers College Press, 2009]); and employment discrimination (e.g...

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