| Description |
1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Series |
Just ideas |
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Just ideas.
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| Contents |
""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""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""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Index"" |
| Summary |
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 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Race relations -- Philosophy
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Race -- Philosophy
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Racism.
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Race -- Philosophy
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Race relations -- Philosophy
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Racism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780823247400 |
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0823247406 |
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