Utz Mcknight: 2 books
Race and the Politics of the Exception
Equality, Sovereignty, and American Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In Race and the Politics of the Exception, Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in...
Everyday Practice of Race in America
Ambiguous Privilege
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2010
An original contribution to political theory and cultural studies this work argues for a reinterpretation of how race is described in US society. McKnight develops a line of reasoning to explain how we accommodate racial categories in a period when it has become important to adopt anti-racist formal...