{"id":8182,"date":"2010-08-08T20:54:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-08T20:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8182"},"modified":"2013-02-09T14:41:30","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T14:41:30","slug":"europe%e2%80%99s-indians-producing-racial-difference-1500%e2%80%931900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8182","title":{"rendered":"Europe\u2019s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500\u20131900"},"content":{"rendered":"

Europe\u2019s Indians: Producing Racial Difference, 1500\u20131900<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Duke University Press<\/a>
\n2010
\n296 pages
\nCloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-4745-3
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-4764-4<\/p>\n

Vanita Seth<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Politics
\nUniversity of California, Santa Cruz<\/em><\/p>\n

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Europe\u2019s Indians<\/em> forces a rethinking of key assumptions regarding difference\u2014particularly racial difference\u2014and its centrality to contemporary social and political theory. Tracing shifts in European representations of two different colonial spaces, the New World<\/a> and India<\/a>, from the late fifteenth century through the late nineteenth, Vanita Seth demonstrates that the classification of humans into racial categories or binaries of self-other is a product of modernity. Part historical, part philosophical, and part a history of science, her account exposes the epistemic conditions that enabled the thinking<\/em> of difference at distinct historical junctures. Seth\u2019s examination of Renaissance<\/a>, Classical Age<\/a>, and nineteenth-century representations of difference reveals radically diverging forms of knowing, reasoning, organizing thought, and authorizing truth. It encompasses stories of monsters, new worlds, and ancient lands; the theories of individual agency expounded by Hobbes<\/a>, Locke<\/a>, and Rousseau<\/a>; and the physiological sciences of the nineteenth century. European knowledge, she argues, does not reflect a singular history of Reason<\/a>, but rather multiple traditions of reasoning, of historically bounded and contingent forms of knowledge. Europe’s Indians<\/em> shows that a history of colonialism and racism must also be an investigation into the historical production of subjectivity, agency, epistemology<\/a>, and the body.<\/p>\n

Table of Contents<\/strong><\/p>\n

Acknowledgments
\nIntroduction
\n1. Self and Similitude: Renaissance Representations of the New World
\n2. \u201cConstructing\u201d Individuals and \u201cCreating\u201d History: Subjectivity in Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau
\n3. Traditions of History: Mapping India’s Past
\n4. Of Monsters and Man: The Peculiar History of Race
\nEpilogue
\nNotes
\nBibliography
\nIndex<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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