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The Inner Life of Race - Leerom Medovoi

The Inner Life of Race

Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial Power

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Buch | Hardcover
296 Seiten
2024
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-2656-3 (ISBN)
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Leerom Medovoi traces the genealogy of contemporary forms of populist racism to offer a global account of how religion and racism are used to govern and police populations.
In The Inner Life of Race, Leerom Medovoi turns away from conventional views of race as a politics of the phenotypical body to theorize race instead as a politics of populational threat. Racism’s genealogy, argues Medovoi, invokes longstanding theological distinctions between the body and the soul. While the body can be seen and marked, the soul signals potentially threatening interiorities: dangerous intentions, beliefs, or desires. Race is the power-effect of reading the body in order to police the political threat of the soul. Medovoi’s genealogy begins with medieval deployments of inquisition and confession to wage war against heretics, infidels, and their threat to the salvation of souls. In early modern Spain, these pastoral technologies of power catalyzed the invention of race as a language for the danger of formerly Jewish and Muslim converts. Medovoi shows how this discourse expanded into anti-Blackness and anti-Indigeneity throughout the colonial world and modern Europe, laying the foundation for racialized capitalism and liberal governmentality. Medovoi weaves histories of color-line racism, nativism, Islamophobia, antisemitism, and anticommunism into a pathbreaking account of the political work populational racism accomplishes.

Leerom Medovoi is Professor of English and Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory at the University of Arizona, the author of Rebels: Youth and the Cold War Origins of Identity, and the coeditor of Religion, Secularism, and Political Belonging, both also published by Duke University Press.

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. Ensoulment: A Strategy of Racial Power  1
1. Race Before Race: The Flock and the Wolf  31
2. The Racial Turn: Frayed Fabric and Dissimulating Danger  59
3. Westphalian Reason: The Political Theology of Sedition  97
4. Racial Liberalism, Racial Capitalism: Ensouling Property’s Adversaries  133
5. Conclusion: The Many-Headed Hydra  191
Notes  217
References  243
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Zusatzinfo 11 illustrations
Verlagsort North Carolina
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 567 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Religion / Theologie
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Allgemeines / Lexika
ISBN-10 1-4780-2656-1 / 1478026561
ISBN-13 978-1-4780-2656-3 / 9781478026563
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