Inner Life of Race - Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial Power

List of contents

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Ensoulment: A Strategy of Racial Power  1
1. Race Before Race: The Flock and the Wolf  31
2. The Racial Turn: Frayed Fabric and Dissimulating Danger  59
3. Westphalian Reason: The Political Theology of Sedition  97
4. Racial Liberalism, Racial Capitalism: Ensouling Property’s Adversaries  133
5. Conclusion: The Many-Headed Hydra  191
Notes  217
References  243
Index  265

About the author

Leerom Medovoi

Summary

Leerom Medovoi traces the genealogy of contemporary forms of populist racism to offer a global account of how religion and racism are used to govern and police populations.

Product details

• Authors: Leerom Medovoi, Medovoi Leerom
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.09.2024
• EAN: 9781478026563
• ISBN: 978-1-4780-2656-3
• No. of pages: 296
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; RELIGION / Ethics, Social discrimination & inequality, Religious ethics, Ethnic minorities & multicultural studies, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Race & Ethnic Relations, Racism and racial discrimination / Anti-racism