REFLECTING ON AMERICAN RACISM

Eric Lott, Black Mirror: The Cultural Contradictions of American Racism (Cambridge, Massachusetts, & London, England: Belknap/Harvard U. Press, 2017) (From the book jacket: "Black Mirror is a timely reflection on the ways provocative representations of racial difference serve to sustain white cultural dominance . . . [T]he fraught symbolism of racial difference props up white hegemony, but also tantalizingly threatens to expose the contradictions and hypocrisies upon which the edifice of white power has been built.").