The creolizing subject : race, reason, and the politics of purity / / Michael J. Monahan
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| Autore: |
Monahan Michael J
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| Titolo: |
The creolizing subject : race, reason, and the politics of purity / / Michael J. Monahan
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : Fordham University Press, 2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (261 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 305.8001 |
| Soggetto topico: | Race - Philosophy |
| Race relations - Philosophy | |
| Racism | |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Contingency, history, and ontology : on abolishing whiteness -- Turbulent and dangerous spirits : Irish servitude in Barbados -- Race and biology : scientific reason and the politics of purity -- "Becoming" white : race, reality, and agency -- The politics of purity : colonialism, reason, and modernity -- Creolizing subjects : antiracism and the future of philosophy. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | How does our understanding of the reality (or lack thereof ) of race as a category of being affect our understanding of racism as a social phenomenon, and vice versa? This book focuses on the underlying assumptions that inform this view of race and racism, arguing that it is ultimately bound up in a politics of purity-an understanding of human agency, and reality itself, as requiring all-or-nothing categories with clear and unambiguous boundaries. Monahan calls for the emergence of a creolizing subjectivity that would place such ambiguity at the center of our understanding of race. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | The creolizing subject |
| ISBN: | 0-8232-4071-1 |
| 0-8232-4740-6 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910821883503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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