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Title: End of Race?

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Publication Year: 2001

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Abstract: At regular intervals it has become customary for closure of long and persistent historical processes to be invoked in both scholarly and popular outlets. Typically the author manages to give voice to a sentiment widely sensed and shared that has yet to be put into the language of the moment. Examples include professions by Daniel Bell of "the end of ideology," by Dinesh D'Souza of "the end of racism," and by Francis Fukuyama of "the end of history." The Bell (1962) and Fukuyama (1992) claims actually are similar, both contending - wrongly - that the intellectual and political struggle between "capitalism" and "communism" as competing social systems is at an end. Bell argued that convergence around the "mixed economy" was in transcendence. Fukuyama, in contrast, now argues that the free-market economy stands triumphant in the international arena. D'Souza's (1995) "end of racism" proclaimation conjures up the sleight of hand of a double entendre. One meaning utilizes the secondary definition of the term "end" as goal or objective. In a book where he resuscitates the worst imperial and racial biases of 19* century social science, D'Souza not . . .

Url: https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1525/tran.2001.10.1.39

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Authors: Darity, William A.

Periodical (Full): Transforming Anthropology

Issue: 1

Volume: 10

Pages: 39-43

Data Collections: IPUMS USA

Topics: Education, Family and Marriage, Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Race and Ethnicity

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