Utopia and the problem of race: accounting for the remainder in the imagination of the 1970s utopian subject.
From: Utopian Studies
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Date: 6/22/2006
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Author: Chan, Edward K.
Race seems to pose a particular problem for the utopian imagination, especially in the United States. (1) It is easy enough to imagine a mono-racial utopia, a collection of homogeneous "citizens of nowhere" as the basis for a future or alternative social formation free from racial conflict: an Aryan nation, a primordial past before contact with the Other, or even a colorblind society. But what of attempts to envision a utopia that includes racial difference at its very core? As ...
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