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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136238903321

Autore

Miller J. Reid

Titolo

Stain removal : ethics and race / / J. Reid Miller

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, NY : , : Oxford University Press, , 2016

ISBN

0-19-064830-9

0-19-028099-9

0-19-028098-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Disciplina

177.5

Soggetti

Racism - Moral and ethical aspects

Social ethics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Ethics and race -- The everlasting stain -- The secret of the mark -- Cursed inheritance -- Criminal suspicions.

Sommario/riassunto

'Stain Removal' challenges the idea that we are born as unblemished subjects, unmarked by qualitative associations of value and race. Arguing that value is inheritable as well as mediated through race, the book advances a theory of the evaluative nature of all representation.