Critical Race Consciousness: The Puzzle of Representation

by Peller,Gary

• ISBN13: 9781594519055
• ISBN10: 1594519056
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-01-30
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Despite the apparent racial progress reflected in Obama's election, the African American community in the United States is in a deep crisis on many fronts-economic, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual. This book sets out to trace the ideological roots of this crisis. Challenging the conventional historical narrative of race in America, Peller contends that the structure of contemporary racial discourse was set in the confrontation between liberal integrationism and black nationalism during the 1960s and 1970s. Arguing that the ideology of integrationism that emerged was highly conservative, apologetic, and harmful to the African American community, this book is sure to provide a new lens for studying-and learning from-American race relations in the twentieth century.

Author Biography

Gary Peller is Professor of Law at Georgetown University, where he has taught courses in Contracts, Constitutional Law, Criminal Procedure, and Jurisprudence. His writings and research are primarily in the field of legal theory and legal history.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction	p. xi
The Structure of Integrationist Ideology	p. 1
The Analytic Components of Integrationism	p. 3
Race, Universal Reason, and Liberal Progress	p. 5
Integration and Legitimation	p. 8
Integrationism in Social Form: Public Schools	p. 15
The Black Nationalist Critique	p. 19
Black Power	p. 20
Nationalism as a Critique of Universalism	p. 23
The Nationalist Interpretation of School Integration	p. 26
Nationalism as a Critique of Liberalism	p. 32
Power, Subordination, and Colonialism	p. 36
Different Manifestations of Integrationism and Nationalism	p. 41
Integrationism and Collectivist Consciousness	p. 42
Martin Luther King, Jr., and Black Power	p. 43
Nationalism as an Influence within Integrationist Practice	p. 45
The Right-Wing Black Nationalist Tradition	p. 47
Nationalism as a Frame for Integration	p. 49
The Clash between Integrationism and Black Nationalism 1966-1973	p. 51
The Transformed Meaning of Black Nationalism	p. 54
Black Nationalism and Whites	p. 62
The Racial Ideology of Equal Protection Law	p. 71
Brown as Part of the Postwar Rejection of Formalism	p. 73
The Controversy over Brown among (White) Liberal Legal Elites	p. 77
Brown and the Evil of "Judicial Activism"	p. 79
The Incoherence of the "Judicial Activism" Charge	p. 82
Reinterpreting Brown as Protecting "Discrete and Insular Minorities"	p. 85
The Conflict over De Jure and De Facto School Segregation	p. 87
The Triumph of the De Jure Approach	p. 90
The Intent and Impact Alternatives	p. 92
De Jure, De Facto, and Affirmative Action	p. 93
Multiculturalism, Imperialism, and White Anxiety	p. 97
The Racial Predicament of Progressive Whites	p. 100
Clarence Thomas, Anita Hill, and a "Down-Home Style of Courting"	p. 103
Brown and the Colonization of the South: Replacing "Down-Home" Schooling with New South Technocracy	p. 108
The Construction of Multiculturalism and the Reinterpretation of Brown	p. 111
From "Cultural Deprivation" to Cultural Difference: Accounting for Black Underperformance	p. 116
Laissez-Faire Multiculturalism	p. 122
Identity, Impurity, and Postmodernity	p. 131
The Politics of Representation	p. 135
Reason and the Mob	p. 139
The Nonrationalism of Identity	p. 147
Notes	p. 151
Bibliography	p. 203
Index	p. 231
A bout the Author	p. 239
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