RACEA Glimpse of a Future Without White People. Mohsin Hamid’s The Last White Man is a book about race metamorphosis—and the seduction of power.

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Whiteness physically recedes but it never vanishes completely. It has a psychological grip; lest we forget, identity is more than a badge of flesh. The newly “dark people” of Hamid’s epic appear to embrace different outlooks but, really, what has happened is more of a costume swap than an adjustment of the soul. The characters operate in a kind of cultural drag, entombed in an unrecognizable self, a sort of living elegy of their former whiteness.

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identity is more than a badge of flesh

Ah, yes, even if you're dark skinned, you're white.