1st Edition

Naming Race, Naming Racisms

Edited By Jonathan Judaken Copyright 2009
256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

256 Pages
by Routledge

Eschewing social scientific approaches, which tend to examine race and racism in terms of quasi-static ideal types, this book surveys differing historical contexts from the era of scientific racism in the nineteenth-century to the post-racial racism of the post 9/11 period, and from Europe to the United States, in order to understand how racism has been articulated in differing situations. It is... Read more

1. Naming Race, Naming Racisms: An Introduction  Jonathan Judaken  2. Antinomies of Race: Diversity and Destiny in Kant  Mark Larrimore  3. A Haitian in Paris: Anténor Firmin as a Philosopher Against Racism  Robert Bernasconi  4. Surviving Maurraus: Jacques Maritain’s Jewish Question  Richard Crane  5. Kenneth B. Clark and The Problem of Power  Damon Freeman  6. Listening to Melancholia: Alice Walker’s ‘Meridian’  Leigh Anne Duck  7. Riots, Disasters and Racism: Impending Racial Cataclysm and the Extreme Right in the United States  George Michael and D.J. Mulloy  8. Assia Djebar’s qualam: The Poetics of the Trace in Postcolonial Algeria  Brigitte Weltman-Aron  9. "Everybody else just living their lives": 9/11, Race, and the New Postglobal Literature  Alfred Lopez  10. So What’s New?: Rethinking the New Antisemitism in a Global Age  Jonathan Judaken  11. Black Intellectuals in America: A Conversation with Cornel West  Jonathan Judaken and Jennifer Geddes

Biography

Jonathan Judaken is an associate professor of intellectual and cultural history at the University of Memphis.