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 nation and the racial, respectively. By displacing
historicity's ontological prerogative, Silva proposes that the
notion of racial difference governs the present global power
configuration because it institutes moral regions not covered by
the leading post-Enlightenment ethical ideals--namely, universality
and self-determination.
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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