ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the politics of the new racism in the United States that must begin by reclaiming the language of the social and affirming the project of an inclusive and just democracy. It suggests addressing how the politics of the new racism is made invisible under the mantle of neoliberal ideology—that is, raising questions about how neoliberalism works to hide the effects of power, politics, and racial injustice. The importance of race and the enduring fact of racism are relegated to the dustbin of history at a time in American life when the discourses of race and the spectacle of racial representations saturate the dominant media and public life. The public morality of American life and social policy regarding matters of racial justice are increasingly subject to a politics of denial. Under the reign of neoliberalism in the United States, society is largely defined through the privileging of market relations, deregulation, privatization, and consumerism.
