Toward a Global Idea of RaceU of Minnesota Press - 334 páginas 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 operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in philosophical accounts that presume two ontological moments—historicity and globality—which are refigured in the concepts of the nation and the racial, respectively. By displacing historicity’s ontological prerogative, Silva proposes that the notion of racial difference governs the present global power configuration because it institutes moral regions not covered by the leading post-Enlightenment ethical ideals—namely, universality and self-determination. By introducing a view of the racial as the signifier of globalit y,Toward a Global Idea of Race provides a new basis for the investigation of past and present modern social processes and contexts of subjection. Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego. |
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... of Humanitarianism Volume 15 Sankaran Krishna , Postcolonial Insecurities : India , Sri Lanka , and the Question of Nationhood For more books in this series , see page vi . Toward a Global Idea of Race DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA.
... of Humanitarianism Volume 15 Sankaran Krishna , Postcolonial Insecurities : India , Sri Lanka , and the Question of Nationhood For more books in this series , see page vi . Toward a Global Idea of Race DENISE FERREIRA DA SILVA.
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... questions, Mike Shapiro for his truly revolutionary intel- lectual drive, and Tayyab Mahmud for his friendship, support, and passionate commitment to the collective project of global justice. Without Tayyab and Mike, this book would ...
... questions, Mike Shapiro for his truly revolutionary intel- lectual drive, and Tayyab Mahmud for his friendship, support, and passionate commitment to the collective project of global justice. Without Tayyab and Mike, this book would ...
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... questions , names a prob- lem . Which accounts have come together ? When did it become a matter of course - a scientific truth — a fact of global existence that generations died sometime in the early 1960s ? How did so many generations ...
... questions , names a prob- lem . Which accounts have come together ? When did it become a matter of course - a scientific truth — a fact of global existence that generations died sometime in the early 1960s ? How did so many generations ...
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... question . Radically departing from the prevail- ing ways in which we understand racial subjection , it provides a reformulation of the figure at the center of modern ethical accounts , the notion of homo modernus , that is , the global ...
... question . Radically departing from the prevail- ing ways in which we understand racial subjection , it provides a reformulation of the figure at the center of modern ethical accounts , the notion of homo modernus , that is , the global ...
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... question, How does social scientific knowledge justify the mur- der of people of color? My reply is, How does its arsenal explain it? I offer the following pages as a provisional answer to both questions. Glossary When describing my ...
... question, How does social scientific knowledge justify the mur- der of people of color? My reply is, How does its arsenal explain it? I offer the following pages as a provisional answer to both questions. Glossary When describing my ...
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1 The Transparency Thesis | 1 |
Homo Historicus | 17 |
Homo Scientificus | 91 |
Homo Modernus | 171 |
Future Anterior | 253 |
Notes | 269 |
Bibliography | 301 |
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