Toward a Political Philosophy of RaceTimely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent, of Muslim men and women in the contemporary United States, and of Asian Indians at the turn of the twentieth century, Falguni A. Sheth argues that racial discrimination and divisions are not accidents in the history of liberal societies. Race, she contends, is a process embedded in a range of legal technologies that produce racialized populations who are divided against other groups. Moving past discussions of racial and social justice as abstract concepts, she reveals the playing out of race, racialization of groups, and legal frameworks within concrete historical frameworks. |
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... function in international contexts , but will stop short of offering a full treatment of race in contexts outside ... functions of racial categories- understood in terms of social or cultural identity ( African Americans , Asians , South ...
... function in international contexts , but will stop short of offering a full treatment of race in contexts outside ... functions of racial categories- understood in terms of social or cultural identity ( African Americans , Asians , South ...
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... function of political and legal structures , en- ables us to understand race as producing not only social identities but political or legal identities . The concept of race can be understood in terms of who is “ culturally ” or ...
... function of political and legal structures , en- ables us to understand race as producing not only social identities but political or legal identities . The concept of race can be understood in terms of who is “ culturally ” or ...
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... function as a tech- nology in three ways: as instrumental, naturalizing, and concealment. It is an instrument by which to channel an element that is perceived as threatening to the political order into a set of classifications. These ...
... function as a tech- nology in three ways: as instrumental, naturalizing, and concealment. It is an instrument by which to channel an element that is perceived as threatening to the political order into a set of classifications. These ...
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... function similarly . I draw upon Foucault's writings on madness to develop a key subtext of the discourse of liberal- ism , namely how reason and unreasonableness become codes for the " madness " of cultural difference . The limits of ...
... function similarly . I draw upon Foucault's writings on madness to develop a key subtext of the discourse of liberal- ism , namely how reason and unreasonableness become codes for the " madness " of cultural difference . The limits of ...
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... function as vehicles by which to organize, manage and rank different groups within the polity. We have numerous examples to this effect. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States, various states employed the categories of free ...
... function as vehicles by which to organize, manage and rank different groups within the polity. We have numerous examples to this effect. In eighteenth- and nineteenth-century United States, various states employed the categories of free ...
Contents
| 1 | |
The Unruly Naturalization and Violence | 21 |
2 The Violence of Law Sovereign Power Vulnerable Populations and Race | 41 |
Strangeness Madness and Race | 65 |
Muslim Men and Women | 87 |
Naturalizing the Exception through the Rule of Law | 111 |
6 BorderPopulations Boundary Memory and Moral Conscience | 129 |
7 Technologies of Race and theRacialization of ImmigrantsThe Case of Early TwentiethCentury Asian Indians in North America | 147 |
Toward a Political Philosophy of Race | 167 |
NOTES | 179 |
WORKS CITED | 229 |
INDEX | 249 |
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