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The creolizing subject : race, reason, and the politics of purity /

Drawing upon a close engagement with historical treatments of the development of racial categories & identities, the book argues that races should be understood not as clear & distinct categories of being but rather as ambiguous & indeterminate (yet importantly real) processes of social...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Monahan, Michael J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.
Edición:1st ed.
Colección:Just ideas.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.