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5.0
A brilliant and provocative book that dares to tear into the blase arguments of the "multiracial movement", a movement based on the spurious claim that certain racialized products of certain racialized sex encounters pose a threatening challenge to the racialized world. Sexton not only challenges them at the level of their words, texts, and deeds but also at a deeper structural level where he explores presences and absences. He uncovers a tortured and desperately anti-black world of meaning and behavior, a reading that should leave leaders of this seemingly "well-meaning" movement speechless and gasping for air --- if they would even dare to engage his thinking at all.
From Fanon to Lacan, Derrida to Spillers, Sexton displays incredible dexterity in unearthing the multiracial movement's -- and indeed the world's -- antiblack agenda. He further endeavours to explore it's telos in the globalizing/global world of late capitalism (perhaps a world where "black vs. beige" becomes the new dichotomy),and in his final strokes lays forth a radical response -- one that I can only hope will be further explored in future works.
Though I have to admit that it gets a bit chunky at times, Amalgamation Schemes is undoubtedly the first major work from a fresh and dynamic radical thinker.
From Fanon to Lacan, Derrida to Spillers, Sexton displays incredible dexterity in unearthing the multiracial movement's -- and indeed the world's -- antiblack agenda. He further endeavours to explore it's telos in the globalizing/global world of late capitalism (perhaps a world where "black vs. beige" becomes the new dichotomy),and in his final strokes lays forth a radical response -- one that I can only hope will be further explored in future works.
Though I have to admit that it gets a bit chunky at times, Amalgamation Schemes is undoubtedly the first major work from a fresh and dynamic radical thinker.
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