Race
In: The New Critical Idiom Ser.
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Notes -- Part I: Fixing the Fetters of Race -- Chapter 1: Marking Barbarians, Muslims, Jews, Ethiopians, Africans, Moors, or Blacks -- "Civilization" and "barbarism" -- Marking religious difference: imagined monstrosity, ugliness, and sin -- Marking skin pigmentation by color -- The workings of the law and the making of race -- Notes -- Chapter 2: Pseudo-Scientific markings of difference -- "Scientific method" -- Pseudo-sciences and racial nationalisms -- Eighteenth century doubleness about imaginings of race -- Notes -- Part II: Recasting the Fetters of Race -- Chapter 3: Legislative, Governmental, and Judicial Markings of Diference -- Self-evident"truths": race and the law in the United States -- South African common law and Coetzee's fiction -- Legal constructions of race in pre-1939 and World War II Germany -- T.S. Eliot, Enid Bagnold, racial "purity," and eugenics -- Notes -- Chapter 4: Slavery and Race -- "Natural" slavery -- African slaves -- History of the British slave trade -- British slave-ownership -- Solomon Northup's Twelve Years a Slave and Toni Morrison's Beloved -- Notes -- Part III: Loosening the Fetters of Race -- Chapter 5: Race and Epistemologies of Othernes -- Signifying relationally: race and nation -- Signifying relationally: race and gender -- Double consciousness -- Race and hospitality -- Identities in exile -- Coda: locating the epistemology of otherness -- Notes -- Conclusion: Race in the world -- Word made flesh -- Ocular proof -- Locations of race -- Disowning race -- Notes -- Glossary -- Index.