Tuesday, 28 March 2023
David Theo Goldberg directs the system-wide University of California Humanities Research Institute and is a distinguished professor of anthropology, comparative literature and criminology, law and society at the University of California Irvine.
He has written extensively on race and racism. He is the author of Are We All Postracial Yet? His book Dread: The Politics of Our Time will appear in February 2021.
Facing a pandemic and the climate emergency, all while big data tracks us, we are beset by a ‘fog of unease’, especially about work, which robots both threaten and redefine.
As a win at the polls seems to move increasingly out of the grasp of white conservatives, Republicans appear bent on rigging the popular vote and institutionalising white minority rule.
It was inevitable that an American Dream characterised by racism and deep inequities would ignite the explosive anger that has engulfed cities across the country.
Racism on social media follows twisted forms of illogic, slipping into circles of self-fulfilling claims brooking no argument – and the media platforms claim that they only connect people.
Trump’s tactical racism uses various forms of denial, as well as de-meaning language that implies but doesn’t directly mention race and drains words of their established meaning.