Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity

Informationen zum Autor Michael Monahan is a professor of philosophy at the University of Memphis. His teaching and research focus primarily on the philosophy of race and racism, political philosophy, Hegel, and phenomenology. He is the author of Creolizing Practices of Freedom: Recognition and Dissonance (Rowman and Littlefield). Klappentext 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.

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• Authors: Michael J Monahan, Michael J. Monahan, MONAHAN MICHAEL J
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.05.2011
• EAN: 9780823234493
• ISBN: 978-0-8232-3449-3
• No. of pages: 268
• Series: Just Ideas; Just Ideas: Transformative Ide; Just Ideas
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general)