Toward a Global Idea of Race

by Denise Ferreira da Silva

In this far-ranging and penetrating work, Denise Ferreira da Silva asks why, after more than five hundred years of violence perpetrated by Europeans against people of color, is there no ethical outrage?

Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816649200
• ISBN13: 9780816649204
• Release Date: February 2007
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.0"