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Creolizing Subject : Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity.
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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Bronx :
Fordham University Press,
2011.
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| Colección: | Just ideas.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (261 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780823247400 0823247406 |