The Inner Life of Race: Souls, Bodies, and the History of Racial Power

by Leerom Medovoi

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1478030801
• ISBN13: 9781478030805
• Release Date: September 2024
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"