The creolizing subject : race, reason, and the politics of purity / Michael J. Monahan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Monahan, Michael J.

Series:

Just ideas.

Just ideas

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Race relations--Philosophy.

Race relations.

Racism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (261 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8232-4071-1

0-8232-4740-6

OCLC:

923763636