Constructing the Nation: A Race and Nationalism Reader

by Ortega, Mariana; Alcoff, Linda Martin

• ISBN13: 9781438428482
• ISBN10: 1438428480
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-10-08
• Publisher: State Univ of New York Pr

Summary

Philosophers and social theorists of color examine how racism can creep into defensive forms of nationalism.

Author Biography

Mariana Ortega is Professor of Philosophy at John Carroll University. Linda Martn Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College, City University of New York. Her many books include Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self and Identity Politics Reconsidered (coedited with Michael Hames-Garca, Satya P. Mohanty, and Paula M. L. Moya).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Introduction: The Race of Nationalism	p. 1
Freedom
Cultural Affirmation, Power, and Dissent: Two Midcentury U.S. Debates	p. 17
When Fear Interferes with Freedom: Infantilization of the American Public Seen through the Lens of Post-9/11 Literature for Children	p. 43
Muslim Women and the Rhetoric of Freedom	p. 65
Unity
Faith in Unity: The Nationalist Erasure of Multiplicity	p. 91
Muslim Immigrants in Post-9-11 American Politics: The "Exception" Population as an Intrinsic Element of American Liberalism	p. 103
Situating Race and Nation in the U.S. Context: Methodology, Interdisciplinarity, and the Unresolved Role of Comparative Inquiry	p. 131
Citizenship and Political Friendship: Two Hearts, One Passport	p. 153
Homeland
On the Limits of Postcolonial Identity Politics	p. 179
Theorizing the Aesthetic Homeland: Racialized Aesthetic Nationalism in Daily Life and the Art World	p. 201
List of Contributors	p. 231
Name Index	p. 235
Subject Index	p. 239
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