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Extraordinary racial politics : four events in the informal Constitution of the United States / Fred Lee.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lee, Fred, 1979- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Racism--Political aspects--United States--Case studies.
- Racism.
- African Americans--Civil rights--Case studies.
- African Americans.
- Indians, Treatment of--North America--History--Case studies.
- Indians, Treatment of.
- Japanese Americans--Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945--Case studies.
- Japanese Americans.
- United States--Race relations--Case studies.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (241 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2018.
- Summary:
- "Extraordinary Racial Politics seeks to generate intellectual exchange between ethnic studies and political theory by examining the relationship between quotidian racial experience and periodic mass racial crisis in the United States. It addresses four case studies: The civil rights movement, racial power movements, mass-scale Indian removals, and wartime Japanese internment"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- An introduction into extraordinary racial politics
- Racial re-foundations and the rise of the nation-state
- Racial removal contracts and the nomos of the new world
- Racial states of exception and the decision on enmity
- Racial counter-publics and the power of judgment
- A reaffirmation of extraordinary racial politics.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9781439915776
- 1439915776
- OCLC:
- 1039208347
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