The Afterlife of Race

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The Afterlife of Race is written by Lionel K. McPherson and published by Oxford University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 019762684X (ISBN 10) and 9780197626849 (ISBN 13).

In The Afterlife of Race, Lionel McPherson demystifies the Western concept of "race" and reframes race ideology in America as a caste device that sponsors absurd pretexts for inherited slavery, enforced segregation, and the wilful nonrepair of historical injustice. This reframing paves the way for an anti-caste vision of social equality that emphasizes the moral importance of Black American national specificity--not general antiracism, identity politics, or diversity "of color." The result is a non-racial, non-exclusionary account of Black political solidarity that would welcome everyone who supports reparative justice for Black American "blacks" as descendants of American slavery.