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Book SynopsisAn impassioned history of the politics of oppression
Trade Review[This book] is a powerful fact-based philosophical epic of oppression in Anglo-America along its two central axes—racism and sexuality.Vol. 23.4 2009
-- Cynthia Willett * Emory University *
. . . an important book on the study of race and sexuality studies. . . . By using definition, theory, and discussion of 'normality' and 'abnormality' as put forth by Foucault, McWhorter is able to highlight issues of sexual discrimination within the Anglo-American world. This text offers many insights into the topic of homophobia and discrimination in the US. . . . Highly recommended.September 2009
* Choice *
McWhorter's expanded conception of racism is a path-breaking and far-reaching contribution to critical race theory, disability theory, queer theory, and Foucault scholarship that complicates some of the most accepted understandings of these fields and shows how these understandings have at different times, in unexpected ways, enhanced relations of subjection, domination, and control.
* Hypatia *
Table of ContentsContents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Two Great Dangers
1. Racism, Race, Race War: In Search of Conceptual Clarity
2. A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 1: The White Man Cometh
3. A Genealogy of Modern Racism, Part 2: From Black Lepers to Idiot Children
4. Scientific Racism and the Threat of Sexual Predation
5. Managing Evolution: Race Betterment, Race Purification, and the American Eugenics Movement
6. Nordics Celebrate the Family
7. (Counter) Remembering Racism: An Insurrection of Subjugated Knowledges
Notes
Works Cited
Index
