The Creolizing Subject : : Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity / / Michael J. Monahan.
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? How should we envision the aims and methods of our struggles against racism? Traditionally, the Western political and philosophical t...
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Monahan, Michael J., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Creolizing Subject : Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity / Michael J. Monahan. New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022] ©2011 1 online resource (268 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Just Ideas Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Contingency, History, and Ontology: On Abolishing Whiteness -- 2 Turbulent and Dangerous Spirits: Irish Servitude in Barbados -- 3 Race and Biology: Scientific Reason and the Politics of Purity -- 4 “Becoming” White: Race, Reality, and Agency -- 5 The Politics of Purity: Colonialism, Reason, and Modernity -- 6 Creolizing Subjects: Antiracism and the Future of Philosophy -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star 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? How should we envision the aims and methods of our struggles against racism? Traditionally, the Western political and philosophical tradition held that true social justice points toward a raceless future—that racial categories are themselves inherently racist, and a sincere advocacy for social justice requires a commitment to the elimination or abolition of race altogether. 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. Racism, being organized around a conception of whiteness as the purest manifestation of the human, thus demands a constant policing of the boundaries among racial categories. Drawing upon a close engagement with historical treatments of the development of racial categories and identities, the book argues that races should be understood not as clear and distinct categories of being but rather as ambiguous and indeterminate (yet importantly real) processes of social negotiation. As one of its central examples, it lays out the case of the Irish in seventeenth-century Barbados, who occasionally united with black slaves to fight white supremacy—and did so as white people, not as nonwhites who later became white when they capitulated to white supremacy. Against the politics of purity, Monahan calls for the emergence of a “creolizing subjectivity” that would place such ambiguity at the center of our understanding of race. The Creolizing Subject takes seriously the way in which racial categories, in all of their variety and ambiguity, situate and condition our identity, while emphasizing our capacity, as agents, to engage in the ongoing contestation and negotiation of the meaning and significance of those very categories. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 03. Jan 2023) PHILOSOPHY / General. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014 9783111189604 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110707298 print 9780823234509 https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292813 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780823292813 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780823292813/original |
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