Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age

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Contents Acknowledgments ix IntroductIon Repositioning Race: Prophetic Research in a Postracial Obama Age 1 PArt I The Pitfalls and Possibilities of Prophetic Race Theory: Cultivating Leadership / 17 chAPter 1 Race Matters in “Postracial” OBAMERICA and How to Climb Out of the Rabbit Hole Eduardo Bonilla-Silva with Trenita Brookshire Childers 23 chAPter 2 Am I My Brother’s and My Sister’s Keeper? W. E. B. Du Bois’s New Talented Tenth Earl Wright II 49 chAPter 3 Blackening Up Critical Whiteness: Dave Chappelle as Critical Race Theorist Robert L. Reece 69 viii • Contents PART II Daily Experiences and Implications of the Postracial Obama Age / 91 CHAPTER 4 Race, the Great Recession, and the Foreclosure Crisis: From American Dream to Nightmare 95 Cedric Herring, Loren Henderson, and Hayward Derrick Horton CHAPTER 5 Black Experiences, White Experiences: Why We Need a Theory of Systemic Racism 111 Louwanda Evans and Joe Feagin PART III Diasporic Black Identities in International Contexts / 133 CHAPTER 6 Contextualizing “Race” in the Dominican Republic: Discourses on Whitening, Nationalism and Anti-Haitianism 139 Antonio D. Tillis CHAPTER 7 “U.S. Blacks are beautiful but Brazilian Blacks are not racist”: Brazilian Return Migrants’ Perceptions of U.S. and Brazilian Blacks 151 Tiffany D. Joseph CHAPTER 8 Africa Speaks: The “Place” of Africa in Constructing African American Identity in Museum Exhibits 173 Derrick R. Brooms EPILOGUE Back to the Future of Race Studies: A New Millennium Du Boisian Mode of Inquiry 189 List of Contributors 195 Index 197 ...