Post-civil rights era

Antiracist politics is challenged to devise responses to the obsessive structure of racialization if it is to mount a more effective intervention in the post-civil rights era. Liberal models of multicultural unity-in-diversity and conservative prescriptions for colorblindness have proved themselves to be as damaging to movements for radical social change as they are intractable as elements of contemporary political discourse (West 1994). Critics on the Left seem unsatisfied with the bleakness of these options yet at a loss for an alternative analytic framework. This is especially true with regard to matters of interracial sexuality ... 

Multiracialism in the post-civil rights era United States is marked by a split political-intellectual project, turning on specific tensions between... 

What disturbs the discourse of multiracialism is its inability to escape the association between its official discourse and political mobilization and the more disreputable articulations of sex across racial boundaries. How is it, for example, that both the mail-order bride industry and the multiracial movement can claim the same subversive, progressive potential in this post-civil rights era " WTiy is multiracialism maddened by the whole panoply of racist sexual stereotypes if they simply do not apply ... 

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