Jared Sexton's Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism, Mini-Review
I like to write small reviews - recapitulations, really - of some of the books I've read. Here's one for Jared Sexton's Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of Multiracialism : In the closing chapter of Jared Sexton’s Amalgamation Schemes , he cites a thought expressed by lawyer and scholar Mari Matsuda, aired at a conference on critical race theory, held back in 1997. I reproduce it here: “When we say we need to move beyond Black and white, this is what a whole lot of people say or feel or think: ‘Thank goodness we can get off that paradigm, because those Black people made me feel so uncomfortable. I know all about Blacks, but I really don’t know anything about Asians, and while we’re deconstructing that Black–white paradigm, we also need to reconsider the category of race altogether, since race, as you know, is a constructed category, and thank god I don’t have to take those angry black people seriously anymore.’” This is a book about that....