Toward a Political Philosophy of Race

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Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.
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Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.
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“Falguni Sheth’s Toward a Political Philosophy of Race is … not only ambitious and impressive, but illustrates the sort of intellectual courage that could benefit philosophy as a discipline … [it] offers us a way of understanding race that takes us beyond liberal political theory, race theory, and even Foucauldian discourse about the nature and workings of power in the political sphere.” — Social Theory and Practice

“The black experience has long been taken as paradigmatic for theorists of race across disciplines in the United States, and certainly in philosophy, where blacks constitute the largest racial minority. Thus Falguni Sheth’s exploration of how this dominant paradigm may blind us to the multiple ways in which populations can be, and have been, racialized is a very valuable contribution. This is the first philosophy text on race to focus in detail on Arabs and Asians, and it is also one of the first to draw on continental theorists to examine the issue of race and political power.” — Charles W. Mills, author of The Racial Contract

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780791493977
  • Publisher: State University of New York Press
  • Publication date: 3/5/2009
  • Series: SUNY series, Philosophy and Race
  • Pages: 270
  • Product dimensions: 6.20 (w) x 9.10 (h) x 2.70 (d)

Meet the Author

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.

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgment

Introduction: If You Don’t Do Theory, Theory Will Do You

1. The Technology of Race and the Logics of Exclusion: The Unruly, Naturalization, and Violence

First Dimension: Taming the Unruly
Second Dimension: Naturalizing the Unruly
Race as a Tool for Sovereign Power: Dividing Populations
Enframing Race: Vulnerability and Violence

2. The Violence of Law: Sovereign Power, Vulnerable Populations, and Race

Law, Violence, and Undecidability
Sovereign Power
Unruly and Vulnerable Populations
The Racialization of a Population
The Unruly and the Vulnerable Manifested as Categories of Law: Immigrants, Aliens, Enemies

3. The Unruly: Strangeness, Madness, and Race

Strangeness
Huntington and Rawls: Islam, Madness, and the Menace to Liberalism
Difference, Madness, and Race
Liberal Hegemony and Heterogeneous Populations

4.The Newest Unruly Threat: Muslim Men and Women

The Racializing and Outcasting of Muslims in the United States
Culture, Heterogeneity, and the Foreigner: Unruly Women

5. Producing Race: Naturalizing the Exception Through the Rule of Law

Exceptions and the Rule of Law
Constitutional Rights: Political? Human?

6. Border-Populations: Boundary, Memory, and Moral Conscience

The Third Term: Pariah Populations as a Border-Guard
Pariahs, Border-Populations, and Moral Gauges: The Example of Black Americans
Furthering State Interests: Dividing Populations Against Each Other
Concealing and Unconcealing: Multiple Border-Guards and Outsiders

7.Technologies of Race and the Racialization of Immigrants: The Case of EarlyTwentieth-Century Asian Indians in North America

The Great “Hindu” Migration
Political Resistance or Insurgency?
Racialization
Invisibility

Conclusion: Toward a Political Philosophy of Race

Notes
Works Cited
Index

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