Racial Subjects

Arguing that racism is best understood as exclusionary relations of power, David Theo Goldberg traces the history of changing racial categories over two hundred years of US census-taking and uses this framework to discuss the new black public intellectuals, race and the law in the wake of the O.J. Simpson verdict, relations between Blacks and Jews and affirmative action. By invoking a comparative and international framework in its discussions of race,Race Rulesheralds the next wave of writing about race and moves discussions about race forward as few other books recently have.