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Author Lee, Fred, 1979- author.

Title Extraordinary racial politics : four events in the informal Constitution of the United States / Fred Lee
Published Philadelphia, Pennsylvania : Temple University Press, 2018
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Description 1 online resource (viii, 229 pages)
Contents An introduction into extraordinary racial politics -- Racial re-foundations and the rise of the nation-state -- Racial removal contracts and the nomos of the new world -- Racial states of exception and the decision on enmity -- Racial counter-publics and the power of judgment -- A reaffirmation of extraordinary racial politics
Summary "Extraordinary Racial Politics seeks to generate intellectual exchange between ethnic studies and political theory by examining the relationship between quotidian racial experience and periodic mass racial crisis in the United States. It addresses four case studies: The civil rights movement, racial power movements, mass-scale Indian removals, and wartime Japanese internment"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 29, 2018)
Subject Racism -- Political aspects -- United States -- Case studies
African Americans -- Civil rights -- United States -- Case studies
Indians, Treatment of -- North America -- History -- Case studies
Japanese Americans -- Forced removal and internment, 1942-1945 -- Case studies
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
African Americans -- Civil rights
Indians, Treatment of
Japanese Americans
Race relations
Racism -- Political aspects
SUBJECT United States -- Race relations -- Case studies
Subject North America
United States
Genre/Form Case studies
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018026358
ISBN 9781439915776
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