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Despite being heralded because the resolution to racial clash within the post–civil rights usa, the crucial political influence of multiracialism is neither a problem to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. extra appropriately, Jared Sexton argues in Amalgamation Schemes, multiculturalism displaces either through evoking long-standing tenets of antiblackness and prescriptions for normative sexuality.

In this well timed and penetrating research, Sexton pursues a critique of latest multiracialism, from the splintered political projects of the multiracial circulate to the tutorial box of multiracial experiences, to the melodramatic media declarations approximately “the browning of America.” He contests the rationales of colorblindness and multiracial exceptionalism and the merchandising of a repackaged kin values platform in an effort to exhibit that the genuine goal of multiracialism is the singularity of blackness as a social identification, a political organizing precept, and an item of wish. From this vantage, Sexton interrogates the trivialization of sexual violence lower than chattel slavery and the convoluted dating among racial and sexual politics within the new multiracial consciousness.

An unique and hard intervention, Amalgamation Schemes posits that multiracialism stems from the conservative and reactionary forces decided to undo the earnings of the trendy civil rights flow and dismantle radical black and feminist politics.

Jared Sexton is assistant professor of African American experiences and picture and media experiences on the collage of California, Irvine.