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When Species Meet (review)

Canton and ultimately showing the faults and gaps within neoliberal resurrections of the civil rights legacy (168). Mukherjee’s last chapter, “Of Heroism and Healing, Racism and Redemption: Tall Tales and Short Lists,” continues to deconstruct this legacy by focusing on the anecdotal, and how the “grammar of liberalism” could be easily deployed in both the ‘60s and the ‘90s to very different ends (199). As the author points out, criticisms of the civil rights movement do not deny its importance, but rather “reveal the ways in which authorized tales carry within themselves the terms for their own undoing” (207). Narratives used for the civil rights movements of the 1960s were centered around victimized black individuals, who suffered at the hands of villainous Southerners, and the same individual-centered appeal to color-blindness was utilized in the anti-affirmative action movements of the ‘90s. The individual in the ‘90s was heralded as the site for overcoming prejudice through his or her merit and hard work, and appeals to group identities were considered radical and racist within this context. Mukherjee ends her study with a kind of call to arms to rescue important political ideologies such as feminism and civil rights from the implicitly discriminatory discourses of neoliberalism. The current “war on terror” only serves to exacerbate the erasure of the legacies of civil rights through appeals to patriotism and state security, and Mukherjee’s study is an important reminder in the post-9/11 era of the way that race creates and maintains bodies of knowledge.