Toward a Global Idea of Race |
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Author:
| da Silva, Denise Ferreira |
Series title: | Barrows Lectures |
ISBN: | 978-0-8166-4920-4 |
Publication Date: | Feb 2007 |
Publisher: | University of Minnesota Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $29.00 |
Book Description:
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Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed...
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Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage? Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in philosophical accounts that presume two ontological moments--historicity and globality--which are refigured in the concepts of the nation and the racial, respectively.