The Creolizing Subject: Race, Reason, and the Politics of Purity

Index

Ahmed, Sara, 119, 206–7, 235n11 Alcoff, Linda Martín, 48, 50, 112, 114, 131, 149 Alleyne, Mervyn, 65, 66 American Anthropological Association, 20, 21, 93 Andreason, Robin O., 91, 92, 97 antimiscegenation laws, 29, 84, 170 antiracism, 13, 136, 146, 150, 153, 181–82, 183, 185, 186; and conjuring, 131; and the creolizing subject, 200, 205–6, 208–16; and mixed-race identity, 170, 175; and relation to whiteness, 7, 23, 49, 73, 134–35 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 188–89 Appiah, K. Anthony, 36, 42, 46, 148, 227n9 Aristotle, 85, 154, 229n5 bad faith, 147, 151, 178, 210 Barbados, 5, 6, 51–52, 225n1; history of, 53–64; racial identity in, 1–4, 64, 70, 74, 75–76, 122–23, 129–31 Beauvoir, Simone de, 22, 178 Beckles, Hilary, 58, 59–60, 61–62, 130 biology, 46, 104, 108, 110, 232n6; and culture, 66, 100–2, 109–10, 230n9; and naturalism, 108–9; and the politics of purity, 82, 86–87, 89, 102–5, 106, 110 Butler, Judith, 235n9 cannibalism, 58 capitalism, 31 Caws, Peter, 117–18, 126 Christian, 55, 59, 66, 155, 158 civil rights, 73 class, 28–29, 37–38 Cohen, Shaye J.D., 65 colonialism, 161, 164, 175 colorblindness, 42, 48, 125, 172, 197, 210, 213 conjuring, 125, 126–31, 158 constitution (phenomenological), 48, 89–90, 97, 98, 109–10, 115, 117, 118, 120–22, 147, 167, 215, 231n7 Cromwell, Oliver, 55, 57 Du Bois, W. E. B., 10 Dussel, Enrique, 161, 162 Dyer, Richard, 10–12 eliminativism, 19, 36, 42–47, 90, 92–93, 209, 228n15; and the politics of purity, 72, 78, 80–82, 109 Ellison, Ralph, 13, 164 embodiment, 14, 50, 76, 90, 112, 115–16, 130, 135, 149, 160, 198, 214 epistemic closure, 150, 152, 216 epistemology, 189–90; feminist, 108, 230n2; and phenomenology, 108, 109–14 epistemology of ignorance, 15 essentialism, 35–36, 91–97, 147 ethnicity, 39–40 Europe, idea of, 30,128, 129, 162–65, 196, 218 existentialism, 114, 116, 210, 236n16 Index facticity, 114, 210 Fanon, Frantz, 14, 135, 176 feminist theory, 87, 108, 155, 200, 230n9, 230n1, 230n2, 231n6 freedom, 118, 133, 135, 155, 178, 179–80, 197, 202, 207 Fryer, David Ross, 235n9 Garcia, J.L.A., 139 gender, 89, 118, 160, 185, 200–1, 229n6, 230n9, 233n12 Gordon, Jane Anna, 234n3 Gordon, Lewis R., 90, 147, 151, 155, 169– 70, 210, 217, 219, 226n9, 232n8 habit, 149–50, 151, 158, 181, 200 Headley, Clevis, 50, 125–26, 128, 130–32 Hegel, G.W.F., 30, 49, 155, 161, 195, 201–2, 223, 234n21, 235n8 history, 3, 6, 17, 120–21, 231n7; of race, 49, 75, 103, 115, 124–25, 134, 209, 212–16 Horatio Alger myth, 227n4 Husserl, Edmund, 16–17, 89–90, 106–14, 147, 150, 231n7, 231n1 identity: black, 79; creole identity, 68, 187–88; criteria of, 87–88, 95, 121, 198, 200–2; European, 164–65; Jewish, 40–41, 65, 66, 130; mixed race, 169–75, 187, 204–5, 233n17; personal , 48, 114–19, 124, 132, 189; racial, 48, 50, 75, 85–86, 103, 134, 154, 197, 199, 209, 230n8; white, 24, 79 Ignatiev, Noel, 21, 25–29, 32–33, 69 indentured servitude, 3, 52, 54–64 intersectionality, 235n7 Jacobson, Matthew Frye, 21–22, 37–39, 40–42 Kant, Immanuel, 30, 189 Kee, Robert, 122 Kitcher, Philip, 92, 95, 97–98, 101, 109 Labat, Father Jean-Baptiste, 60 liberalism, 102 , 172 liberation, 23, 33, 73, 133, 183, 186, 202, 212, 229n6 Life World, 111, 117, 149, 195 Ligon, Richard, 53, 55 Locke, John, 232n9 Lugones, María, 194–95, 220 lynching, 29, 84, 152 magic, 125, 126–28, 130, 131 Makalani, Minkah, 170 Maldonado-Torres, Nelson, 162, 172 Manichean framework, 169 Massara, Art, 229n2 Mayr, Ernst, 91 McWhorter, Ladelle, 147 mestizaje, 188–89, 194 Mills, Charles, 81, 155, 225n4, 226n3 miscegenation, 228n15 mixed race. See identity: mixed race modernity, 158–62, 164–65, 172, 175, 177 Moran, Dermot, 107 Moynihan, Daniel Patrick, 147–48 mythos, 18, 128; of modernity, 161–62 Natanson, Maurice, 108, 112, 124n7 Nativism, 227n7 naturalism, 16, 18, 46–47, 89, 108–10 Nietzsche, Friedrich, 89, 138, 142–147, 150–151 Nirenberg, David, 65–67 normativity: and the creolizing subject, 207, 222; and the politics of purity, 7, 80, 136, 165, 187; of whiteness, 8–9, 11, 12, 14, 24, 71, 169, 176 objectivity, 45 one-drop rule, 83, 84 Outlaw, Lucius, 48, 50 phenomenology, 42, 48, 89, 98, 106–16, 120, 125, 192, 230n12, 230n1, 231n7, 233n18; as...