{"product_id":"denise-ferriera-da-silva-toward-a-global-idea-of-race","title":"Denise Ferriera Da Silva: Toward a Global Idea of Race","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUniversity of Minnesota Press, 2007, Paperback, 352 pages, 14.96 x 22.86 cm\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn 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?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eRejecting 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—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ehistoricity\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eglobality\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e—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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eBy introducing a view of the racial as the signifier of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eglobalit\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003ey, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\" style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eToward a Global Idea of Race\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e provides a new basis for the investigation of past and present modern social processes and contexts of subjection.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57276853911936,"sku":null,"price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/31ZB75ommfL._SY445_SX342.jpg?v=1769009486","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/denise-ferriera-da-silva-toward-a-global-idea-of-race","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}