FREEDOM WITH VIOLENCE/

In Freedom with Violence, Chandan Reddy develops a new paradigm for understanding race, sexuality, and national citizenship. He exam ines a crucial contradiction at the heart of modernity: the nation state's claim to provide freedom from violence depends on its sys tematic deployment of violence against peoples perceived as non-normative and irrational. Reddy argues that the modern liberal state is organized as a counter-violence to race even as, and precisely because, race persists as the condition of possibility for the mo dern sub...[Read more]