The inner life of race : souls, bodies, and the history of racial power / Leerom Medovoi.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Medovoi, Leerom, 1963- author.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Racism--History.

Racism.

Critical theory.

Other (Philosophy)--Religious aspects.

Other (Philosophy).

Passing (Identity).

Religion and politics.

Religious discrimination--History.

Religious discrimination.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 279 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2024.

Summary:

"Leerom Medovoi's The Inner Life of Race engages questions of race, power, and embodiment to analyze how systems of color-line racism are different and similar to other forms of racism, such as Islamophobia or anti-semitism. Working through a Foucauldian frame, Medovoi offers a genealogy of governmentally and security, outlining a parallel between hierarchies of racial embodiment and of what he calls "ensoulment," a system he traces back to fifteenth-century Catholic Spain and the church's attempts to sort out true believers from those who might be passing and thus threats to the whole. He argues that the Church's active concern for true believers directly prefigures the racial-security biopolitics which emerges a few centuries later. This attention to religious concerns enables Medovoi to trace the mutations of religious control to political control and religious fanaticism into political fanaticism, and to analyze how contemporary antisemitism and Islamophobia-as well as homophobia and transphobia-draw on centuries-old anxieties about the particular threats posed by the soul who "passes" as Christian or as a white body"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Ensoulment : a strategy of racial power

Race before race : the flock and the wolf

The racial turn : frayed fabric and dissimulating danger

Westphalian reason : the political theology of sedition

Racial liberalism, racial capitalism : ensouling property's adversaries

The many-headed hydra.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Medovoi, Leerom, 1963- Inner life of race.

ISBN:

9781478059790

1478059796

9781478094234

1478094230

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