ABSTRACT

It is widely accepted that race is socially constructed. Despite this, deference to race witnesses scholarship and activism becoming complicit in the reification of race and the reproduction of its effects. Gilroy describes ‘‘the pious ritual in which we always agree that ‘‘race’’’ is invented but then are required to defer to its embeddedness in the world and to accept that the demand for justice requires us nevertheless innocently to enter the political arenas it helps to mark out’. This article engages this contention through reflection on the political deployment of race in Southhall Black Sisters. Empirical data and postracial theory extend the analysis to examine an applied postracialism and to consider whether we have arrived at a new antiracist conjuncture. Ultimately, this theoretically informed and empirically engaged article examines the role of race in antiracist politics and reflects on its future as a tool for performing such principled labor.

摘要

人们普遍认为，种族是社会建构的。尽管如此，对种族的尊重见证了学术和激进主义成为种族具体化及其影响的复制的同谋。吉尔罗伊描述了“我们总是同意‘种族’是被发明出来的虔诚仪式，但随后又被要求遵从它在世界中的嵌入性，并接受对正义的要求仍然要求我们天真地进入政治舞台。它有助于标记出来'。本文通过对 Southhall Black Sisters 中种族的政治部署的反思来参与这一论点。经验数据和后种族理论扩展了分析以检验应用的后种族主义并考虑我们是否已经到达一个新的反种族主义关头。最终，