The creolizing subject [[electronic resource] ] : race, reason, and the politics of purity / / Michael J. Monahan

• Autore: Monahan Michael J
• 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
• Serie: Just ideas.