David Theo Goldberg

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David Theo Goldberg
Basic facts
Organization:	University of California Irvine
Role:	Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute
Expertise:	Political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies, and digital humanities
Education:	•Ph.D. City University of New York , 1985 •Degrees in economics, politics, and philosophy, University of Cape Town
Website:	Official website

David Theo Goldberg is a South African legal scholar and professor. As of June 2022, he was the director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute. According to his faculty page on the University of California Irvine's website, Goldberg's areas of interest include political theory, race and racism, ethics, law and society, critical theory, cultural studies, and digital humanities.

Career

Below is a summary of David Theo Goldberg's education and career:

Academic degrees:

• Ph.D. City University of New York (1985)
• Degrees in economics, politics, and philosophy, University of Cape Town

Professional positions and honors:

• Founder of the Humanities, Arts, Science and Technology Advanced Collaboratory (HASTAC)
• Former faculty member at Arizona State University (1990-2000)
• Founding co-editor of the journal Social Identities: Journal for the Study of Race, Nation and Culture
• Producer of rap music video Kurtis Blow's "Basketball" (1985)
• Founder of film production company Metafilms
• Co-director of the award-winning short film on South Africa, The Island

Academic scholarship

The following table contains a selection of books and works by Professor Goldberg about critical race theory and related issues. Any links in the table below feature Ballotpedia summaries of that scholarly work. All of his publications can be found here.

Scholarly work
Title	Source
Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning	Wiley-Blackwell (1993)
The Racial State	Blackwell Publishing (2002)
The Threat of Race	Wiley-Blackwell (2008)
The Threat of Race: Reflections on Racial Neoliberalism	John Wiley & Sons (2009)
Multiculturalism: A Critical Reader	Blackwell (1995)
Anatomy of Racism	University of Minnesota Press (1990)
"Racial Europeanization"	Ethnic and racial studies (2006)
Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America	Routledge (2016)
Are We All Postracial Yet?	John Wiley & Sons (2015)
Dread: Facing Futureless Futures	Polity (2021)

See also

• Education Policy
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• Index of articles about education policy

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