Race, Philosophy and Derrida in the New Hegemonic Bifurcation

Document Type

Paper Presentation

Publication Date

6-2014

Abstract

The cultural and economic supremacy of the United States contributes vastly to worldwide light-skin preference. After examining the cultural norms regarding “whitening,” I argue that with the rise of a new superpower we might see a new kind of racial majority class. This is true particularly as hegemony splits, economic power in Asia, cultural power remaining, for the time, American. I draw heavily on Derrida’s “Racism’s Last Word,” fleshing out a parallel between apartheid South Africa and the possibility of a bifurcated preferred race system where it is “cool” to be perceived as white, but “powerful” to be perceived Chinese.

Host

Loyola University Chicago

Conference/Symposium

12th Annual Global Studies Association Conference

City/State

Chicago, IL

Department

College of Arts and Sciences

Comments

Theme: The End of U.S. Hegemony?

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