Quandaries of Race and Gender Theory
Instead of directly addressing class inequality and working-class standards of living, left-wing social policy today focuses on race and gender because the ideological battles over discrimination have already been won and there is an established anti-discrimination consensus that they seek to mobilize for unpopular redistributionist policies. The 1960s were a time of openly race- and gender-based discrimination that included such practices as segregated bathrooms, discrimination against women in the workplace, and persecution of homosexuals. But with today’s established laws and policies against discrimination and in support of gay marriage, for instance, the cause of anti-discrimination, while still popular, no longer has any clear enemies besides the racists and misogynists of the past or fringe groups in the present. In this issue of Telos, we investigate the theories and ideologies that have transformed the politics of race and gender over the last half century, as well as the quandaries this transformation has given rise to in the present.
Introduction
David Pan
The “Mythological Machine” of Antisemitism: The Recycling of False Accusations against Jews in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
Manuela Consonni
We, Voluntary Victorians: Foucault’s History of Sexuality Volume 1 Revisited
Mark G. E. Kelly
Queer Ontogeny and the Circuits of Sexuality; or, On the Queerness of Theory
Kevin S. Amidon
The End of Affirmative Action
For Whom the Advantage Tolls: Institutional Racism and the Prospective Legacies of SFFA v. Harvard
J. E. Elliott
Diversity and the End of Deference
John K. Bingley
The End of Affirmative Action Will Help Blacks and Hispanics
David Pan
Reviews
Imbuing Liberalism with Lost Spirit: Timothy Stacey
Andrew M. Wender
