The introduction to Melamed’s book Represent and Destroy presents a ‘new theory’ of race in a post World War II United States. The theory focuses on many race-related issues but mainly racial formation/ systems, understanding literary studies, and geopolitical struggles around the meaning and significance of race. Melamed also discusses the ‘fall’ of white supremacy as it was “replaced by formally antiracist liberal capitalist modernity” including, Racial liberalism 1940’s to 1960’s, Liberal multiculturalism 1980’s to 1990’s, and Neoliberal multiculturalism 2000’s. Melamed also explains how the merging of antiracism was identified and recognized as a mode of ‘liberal power’ in the United States. As antiracism grew and became established changes
