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Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.
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Falguni A. Sheth is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Hampshire College and the coeditor (with David Colander and Robert E. Prasch) of Race, Liberalism, and Economics.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction: If You Don't Do Theory, Theory Will Do You 1
1 The Technology of Race and the Logics of Exclusion: The Unruly, Naturalization, and Violence 21
First Dimension: Taming the Unruly 26
Second Dimension: Naturalizing the Unruly 28
Race as a Tool for Sovereign Power: Dividing Populations 29
Enframing Race: Vulnerability and Violence 35
2 The Violence of Law: Sovereign Power, Vulnerable Populations, and Race 41
Law, Violence, and Undecidability 42
Sovereign Power 47
Unruly and Vulnerable Populations 49
The Racialization of a Population 51
The Unruly and the Vulnerable Manifested as Categories of Law: Immigrants, Aliens, Enemies 56
3 The Unruly: Strangeness, Madness, and Race 65
Strangeness 67
Huntington and Rawls: Islam, Madness, and the Menace to Liberalism 74
Difference, Madness, and Race 78
Liberal Hegemony and Heterogeneous Populations 81
4 The Newest Unruly Threat: Muslim Men and Women 87
The Racializing and Outcasting of Muslims in the United States 88
Culture, Heterogeneity, and the Foreigner: Unruly Women 95
5 Producing Race: Naturalizing the Exception Through the Rule of Law 111
Exceptions and the Rule of Law 113
Constitutional Rights: Political? Human? 117
6 Border-Populations: Boundary, Memory, and Moral Conscience 129
The Third Term: Pariah Populations as a Border-Guard 130
Pariahs, Border-Populations, and Moral Gauges: The Example of Black Americans 136
Furthering State Interests: Dividing Populations Against Each Other 141
Concealing and Unconcealing: Multiple Border-Guards and Outsiders 143
7 Technologies of Race andthe Racialization of Immigrants: The Case of Early Twentieth-Century Asian Indians in North America 147
The Great "Hindu" Migration 148
Political Resistance or Insurgency? 150
Racialization 154
Invisibility 157
Conclusion: Toward a Political Philosophy of Race 167
Notes 179
Works Cited 229
Index 249