Toward a global idea of race / Denise Ferreira da Silva.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Silva, Denise Ferreira da.

Series:

Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 27.

Borderlines ; v. 27

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Globalization--Social aspects.

Globalization.

Race relations.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (379 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 momentsÑhistori

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-317) and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-5438-7

OCLC:

476187126