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The Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Paperback)
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The Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Paperback)
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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.
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