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The Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Hardcover, New): Michael J. Monahan The Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Hardcover, New)
Michael J. Monahan
R2,580 Discovery Miles 25 800 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

The Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Paperback): Michael J. Monahan The Creolizing Subject - Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity (Paperback)
Michael J. Monahan
R1,185 Discovery Miles 11 850 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

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.

Thinking the US South - Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives (Paperback): Shannon Sullivan Thinking the US South - Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives (Paperback)
Shannon Sullivan; Contributions by Linda Martin Alcoff, Shiloh Whitney, Lucius T Outlaw, Mariana Ortega, …
R1,055 Discovery Miles 10 550 Ships in 12 - 17 working days

Knowledge emerges from contexts, which are shaped by people's experiences. The varied essays in Thinking the US South: Contemporary Philosophy from Southern Perspectives demonstrate that Southern identities, borders, and practices play an important but unacknowledged role in ethical, political, emotional, and global issues connected to knowledge production. Not merely one geographical region among others, the US South is sometimes a fantasy and other times a nightmare, but it is always a prominent component of the American national imaginary. In connection with the Global North and Global South, the US South provides a valuable perspective from which to explore race, class, gender, and other inter- and intra-American differences. The result is a fresh look at how identity is constituted; the role of place, ancestors, and belonging in identity formation; the impact of regional differences on what counts as political resistance; the ways that affect and emotional labor circulate; practices of boundary policing, deportation, and mourning; issues of disability and slowness; racial and other forms of suffering; and above all, the question of whether and how doing philosophy changes when done from Southern standpoints. Examining racist tropes, Indigenous land claims, Black Southern philosophical perspectives, migrant labor, and more, this incisive anthology makes clear that roots matter.

Creolizing Practices of Freedom - Recognition and Dissonance (Hardcover): Michael J. Monahan Creolizing Practices of Freedom - Recognition and Dissonance (Hardcover)
Michael J. Monahan
R3,299 Discovery Miles 32 990 Ships in 10 - 15 working days

Creolizing Practices of Freedom argues that many of our long-standing debates over the concept of "freedom" have been bound up in "the politics of purity" - explicitly or implicitly insisting on clear and distinct boundaries between self and other or between choice and coercion. In this model, "freedom" becomes a matter of purifying the "self" at the individual level, and the body politic at the larger social level. The appropriate response to this is a "creolizing" theory of freedom, an approach that sees indeterminacy and ambiguity not as tragic flaws, but as crucial productive elements of the practice of freedom. Using debates about the "politics of recognition" as a central example, the book argues that both contemporary proponents and critics of recognition theory fall prey to the politics of purity. Building on a reappropriate of the Hegelian origins of recognition theory the book advances a reading of recognition in which "recognition" is a necessarily open-ended, dynamic, and relational account of human subjectivity in which freedom in this creolizing sense emerges as an aim. Arguing further that any appropriate theorization of freedom as creolizing must itself engage in an open-ended and productive encounter with different approaches and traditions, the book draws upon the work of Steve Biko, Gloria Anzaldua, Sylvia Wynter, and Lewis Gordon to further enrich and elaborate the emerging account of freedom as a creolizing practice. Key to the development of this account of freedom is a recurring appeal to the sonic. Oppression operates as a mode of "destructive interference," like a kind of white noise, and freedom operates as mode of "constructive interference" where human activity is mutually-enhancing and directed toward reciprocity or "resonance."

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