Ontological Branding - Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World

Using Heideggerian tool ontology to investigate antiblack racism in the United States, Ontological Branding: Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World provides a novel account of race and racial justice. Bonard Iván Molina García argues that race is best understood as a tool to brand persons of color, particularly Black persons, as subordinate in order to privilege whiteness as the proper state of persons in a world created by and for persons and in which all (and only) persons are equal. Persons of color, particularly Black persons, are thus excluded from full participation in the rights and privileges of personhood and instead relegated to ways of being in service to the white world. This white supremacist system was created through law, and despite significant changes, U.S. law's current approach to racial justice through colorblindness only serves to safeguard white supremacy. Racial justice instead requires a critical race consciousness that accounts for the ontology of race. Racial justice requires ontological justice.

List of contents

Introduction
Chapter 1: Tool Ontology
Chapter 2: Ontological Brands
Chapter 3: A Genealogy of (White) America
Chapter 4: The Pale and Inconspicuous Presence
Chapter 5: Ontological Justice as Racial Justice
Conclusion
Bibliography
About the Author

About the author

Bonard Iván Molina García is an international arbitration attorney and independent scholar based in Washington D.C.

Product details

• Authors: Bonard Ivan Molina Garcia, Bonard Iván Molina García, Bonard Ivan Molina Garcia, Bonard Iván Molina García
• Publisher: Lexington Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.09.2023
• EAN: 9781666902372
• ISBN: 978-1-66690-237-2
• No. of pages: 150
• Series: Philosophy of Race
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: antiquity to present day; Social sciences, law, business > Law > Labour law, social law; PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Phenomenology, LAW / Discrimination, Ethnic groups and multicultural studies, Phenomenology & Existentialism, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Phenomenology and Existentialism, Discrimination in employment & harassment law, Discrimination in employment and harassment law, Discrimination in employment law