TOWARD A GLOBAL IDEA OF RACE

Rejecting the prevailing view that social categories of difference such as race and culture operate solely as principles of exclusion, Silva presents a critique of modern thought that shows how racial knowledge and power produce global space. Looking at the United States and Brazil, she argues that modern subjects are formed in philosophical accounts that presume two ontological momentshistoricity and globalitywhich are refigured in the concepts of the nation and the racial, respectively.