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Toward a global idea of race /

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture opera...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Silva, Denise Ferreira da (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
Colección:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 27.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction : a death foretold
  • The transparency thesis
  • Homo historicus
  • The critique of productive reason
  • The play of reason
  • Transcendental poesis
  • Homo scientificus
  • Productive nomos
  • The science of the mind
  • The sociologics of racial subjection
  • Homo modernus
  • Outlining the global/historical subject
  • The spirit of liberalism
  • Tropical democracy
  • Conclusion : future anterior
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.