Description: Toward a Global Idea of RaceAuthor(s): Denise Ferreira da Silva Format: Paperback Publisher: University of Minnesota Press, United States Imprint: University of Minnesota Press ISBN-13: 9780816649204, 978-0816649204 Synopsis 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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Book Title: Toward a Global Idea of Race
Number of Pages: 352 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: Toward a Global Idea of Race
Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
Publication Year: 2007
Subject: Social Sciences
Item Height: 229 mm
Type: Textbook
Author: Denise Ferreira Da Silva
Series: Barrows Lectures
Item Width: 150 mm
Format: Paperback
