Freedom with Violence: Race, Sexuality, and the Us State

by Chandan Reddy

Book Overview

In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He examines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation-state's claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its systematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as nonnormative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a "counterviolence" to race even...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822351056
• ISBN13: 9780822351054
• Release Date: October 2011
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"