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



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Autore: Monahan Michael J Visualizza persona
Titolo: The creolizing subject [[electronic resource] ] : race, reason, and the politics of purity / / Michael J. Monahan Visualizza cluster
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
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-4071-1
0-8232-4740-6
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910463632203321
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