Freedom with violence : race, sexuality, and the US state
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Freedom with violence : race, sexuality, and the US state
(Perverse modernities)
Duke University Press, c2011
- : pbk
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-296) and index
Description and Table of Contents
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 modernity as freedom from violence or revolutionary ideas of freedom through violence, Reddy contends that liberal modernity is a structure for authorizing state violence. Contemporary neoliberal societies link freedom to the notion of legitimate (state) violence and produce narratives of liberty that tie rights and citizenship to institutionalized violence. To counter these formulations, Reddy proposes an alternative politics of knowledge grounded in queer of color critique and critical ethnic studies. He uses issues that include asylum law and the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy to illustrate this major rethinking of the terms of liberal modernity.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
Introduction. Freedom's Amendments: Race, Sexuality, and Disposability under the State Form 1
Part I
1. Freedom and Violence in W. E. B. Du Bois's Souls of Black Folk: The Land of Racial Equality 55
2. Legal Freedom as Violence in Nella Larsen's Quicksand: Black Literary Publics during the Interwar Years 90
Interlude 134
Part II
3. Rights-Based Freedom with Violence: Immigration, Sexuality, and the Subject of Human Rights 143
4. Moving beyond a Freedom with Violence: The Politics of Gay Marriage in the Era of Racial Transformation 182
Conclusion. Don't Ask, Don't Tell 219
Notes 247
Bibliography 283
Index 297
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