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Toward a Global Idea of Race

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Description for Toward a Global Idea of Race Paperback. Series: Borderlines. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JFFS; JFSL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 150 x 20. Weight in Grams: 494.

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, 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 ... Read more

 

By introducing a view of the racial as the signifier of globalit y,Toward a Global Idea of Race provides a new basis for the investigation of past and present modern social processes and contexts of subjection.

 

Denise Ferreira da Silva is associate professor of ethnic studies at University of California, San Diego.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
Borderlines
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816649204
SKU
V9780816649204
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