Demonstrating without demands: re-articulating the black populist subject within the post-racial mystique.
The recent groundswell of American social protest illuminates the neoliberal constraints on constructing a people in the twenty-first century. Perhaps no one has better helped facilitate such discussion than Ernesto Laclau in his later work on populist reason. Here, I utilize Laclau's concept of the...
| Publicado en: | Argumentation & Advocacy Vol. 54; no. 3; pp. 179 - 199 |
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