5 The Politics of Purity: Colonialism, Reason, and Modernity

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 Contingency, History, and Ontology: On Abolishing Whiteness 19
6. 2 Turbulent and Dangerous Spirits: Irish Servitude in Barbados 51
7. 3 Race and Biology: Scientific Reason and the Politics of Purity 77
8. 4 “Becoming” White: Race, Reality, and Agency 106
9. 5 The Politics of Purity: Colonialism, Reason, and Modernity 136
10. 6 Creolizing Subjects: Antiracism and the Future of Philosophy 183
11. Notes 225
12. Works Cited 237
13. Index 245