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Toward a global idea of race / Denise Ferreira da Silva.
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Title:Toward a global idea of race / Denise Ferreira da Silva.
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Author/Creator:Silva, Denise Ferreira da.
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Other Contributors/Collections:Project Muse Archive Complete Supplement III Collection.
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Published/Created:Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©2007.
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Call Number: HT1521
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Library of Congress Subjects:Race relations.
Globalization--Social aspects.
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Description:1 online resource ; cm.
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Series:Borderlines (Minneapolis, Minn.) ; v. 27.
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Summary: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 momentshistori.
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Reproduction note:Electronic reproduction. Baltimore, MD Available via World Wide Web.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-317) and index.
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ISBN:9780816654383 (electronic bk.)
0816654387 (electronic bk.)
0816649197
0816649200
9780816649198
9780816649204
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Contents:Introduction : a death foretold
The transparency thesis
Homo historicus
The critique of productive reason
The play of reason
Transcendental poesis
Homo scientificus
Productive nomos
The science of the mind
The sociologics of racial subjection
Homo modernus
Outlining the global/historical subject
The spirit of liberalism
Tropical democracy
Conclusion : future anterior
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