Racialized modernity: An analytics of white mythologies

• Published in: Ethnic and racial studies Vol. 30; no. 4; pp. 643 - 663
• Main Author: Hesse, Barnor
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Taylor & Francis Group 01.07.2007; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
• Subjects: Colonialism; coloniality; Conceptualization; Criticism; Derrida, Jacques; Discourse; Ethnicity; Europe; Habermas; Habermas, Jurgen; Habermas, Jürgen; Hegel; Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich; Identity; Metaphysics; Modernism; Modernity; Myth; Mythology; Philosophers; Political thought; Race; Race relations; racialization; Social theory; Theoretical Problems; White people; Whites

This article is located in parentheses between two quotations from Derrida's reflections on white mythologies, defined here as the 'rhetoric of modernity'. It re-conceptualizes race by interrogating its elision in contemporary social and political thought where discussions of modernit...