Freedom with violence : race, sexuality, and the US state / Chandan Reddy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Reddy, Chandan, 1972-

Series:

Perverse modernities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--African American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--African American authors.

African Americans--Intellectual life--20th century.

African Americans.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

United States--Race relations.

United States.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

xiii, 303 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Durham, NC : Duke University Press, 2011.

Summary:

In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state's claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a "counterviolence" to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the modern subject. Contemporary neoliberal societies link freedom to the notion of legitimate (state) violence and produce narratives of liberty that tie rights and citizenship to institutionalized violence. To counter these formulations, Reddy proposes an alternative politics of knowledge grounded in queer of color critique and critical ethnic studies. Book jacket.

Contents:

Freedom and violence in W.E.B. Du Bois's Souls of Black folk : the land of racial equality

Legal freedom as violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand : Black literary publics during the interwar years interlude

Rights-based freedom with violence : immigration, sexuality, and the subject of human rights

Moving beyond a freedom with violence : the politics of gay marriage in the era of racial transformation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822350910

0822350912

9780822351054

0822351056

OCLC:

700406671