Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the US State (Perverse Modernities: A Series Edited by Jack Halberstam and Lisa Lowe)
By Chandan Reddy.
Description
In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state’s claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a “counterviolence” to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the modern subject. Rejecting liberal notions of modernit...
ISBN(s)
0822351056, 9780822351054
