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Resonances of Slavery in Race/Gender Relations

Part of the Breaking Feminist Waves Book Series

DOI: 10.1057/9780230117464

ISBN: 978-1-349-29145-8

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 17, 2015

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Introduction

Flax, Jane

Pages: 1 –6

[During a speech given in Philadelphia, on March 18, 2008, Barack Obama stated: Contrary to the claims of some of my critics, black and white, I have never been so naive as to believe we can get beyond our racial divisions in a single election cycle, or with a single candidacy—particularly a...
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Shadow at the Heart: Race/Gender Domination and the Melancholia of American Politics

Flax, Jane

Pages: 7 –24

[Equality and freedom are central themes in the preferred narrative of America’s founding and also our defining values.2 In this context, the pervasive presence of the unfree—of slavery—is an irreconcilable paradox. David Brion Davis claims that “racial slavery became an intrinsic and...
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Melancholia: A Genealogy

Flax, Jane

Pages: 25 –40

[Acknowledging the complex social processes through which race/ gender is fabricated and renewed can contribute to shifting from melancholia to mourning. I use the term “fabrication” because it simultaneously connotes the double sense of made and made up. In regard to race/gender, both meanings...
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Fabricating Subjectivity: Monster’s Ball, The Deep End, and Crash as Enactments of Race/Gender in the Contemporary United States

Flax, Jane

Pages: 41 –67

[In the first chapter, I argue that contemporary American subjects suffer from untreated race/gender melancholia. Unable or unwilling to confront the gaps between an idealized view of our history, culture, and subjective organizations and the more complex realities of our wounded present,...
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Paradise Lost: Race/Gender Melancholia and the Limits of Political Liberalism

Flax, Jane

Pages: 69 –95

[Citizenship and other political practices could offer promising sites for the project of undoing race/gender melancholia. However, I will argue, as currently constituted in the contemporary United States, their utility is limited. In this chapter, I track the interdependence of race/gender...
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Politics for Fallen Angels: Subjectivity, Democratic Citizenship, and Undoing Race/Gender Melancholia

Flax, Jane

Pages: 97 –128

[In the last chapter, I argued that rather than offering resources for undoing race/gender melancholia, the political liberalism John Rawls conceives inadvertently exacerbates it. This consequence is partially due to the construction of subjectivity that his political liberalism posits and...
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In-Conclusion: Remedies and Constraints

Flax, Jane

Pages: 129 –151

[Throughout this book, I have reiterated several claims: that race/gender domination persists, that one of the reasons for its persistence is that American citizens remain in a state of race/gender melancholia stemming from the lack of proper acknowledgment and mourning of the losses slavery and...

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