Preliminary Material -- Race and Anti-Racism in the Postmodern Context -- Race As a Lived Reality -- Recasting Anti-Racism Knowledge -- Unpacking Systemic Racism -- Racialization and the Making of Racialized Subjects -- 'Resistance to Amputation' -- Race, Difference, and the Discourse of Intersectionality -- Race, Schooling and Education -- Teaching Race in the Contemporary Classroom -- Alternative/Counter And Insurgent Visions of Transformative Education -- Race and the Seduction of 'Overcoming' -- Postscript -- References -- Notes -- Transgressions: Cultural Studies and Education.

With admirable clarity and directness, George Dei exposes the tendency towards the racial re-feudalization of the contemporary public sphere in Canada and, by association, other post-industrial societies. He points to the enormous opportunity costs imposed on racial minorities in the new millennium as a consequence. In RACISTS BEWARE: UNCOVERING RACIAL POLITICS IN THE POSTMODERN SOCIETY, Dei identifies and subjects to close scrutiny the new race-bending logics of what he calls “postmodern” societies in which the dwellers of the suburbs and members of the itinerant white professional middle class (the great beneficiaries of late capitalism and neoliberalization of the economy) now have become the new social plaintiff turning the complaint of racial inequality and discrimination on the heads of those most oppressed. If Gayatri Spivak asks “Can the subaltern speak?” then Dei brilliantly poses the question: “When will Anglo-dominant groups, even critical ones, ever listen?” This book is likely to provoke and influence discussion on racial antagonism for a long, long time to come.

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