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About the Author
Falguni A. Sheth is Associate Professor in Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Emory University. She is the author of Toward a Political Philosophy of Race (SUNY Press, 2009); the co-editor of Race, Liberalism, and Economics (University of Michigan Press, 2004). Sheth has a Ph.D. in philosophy from the New School for Social Research. Sheth's areas of expertise include race and state-sanctioned violence, national security politics, postcolonial and transnational feminist theory, and critical race and legal studies. She has published numerous articles in political and feminist philosophy, in legal, and critical race theory, and in the philosophy of race. Sheth was a columnist for Salon.com, where she wrote about race, national security, and politics. She has written for a range of public venues including Alternet and Common Dreams. For 15 years, she has been the co-organizer of the California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, founded as a forum on philosophy, race, and related themes.
Reviews
Theoretically sophisticated, written in dense prose, and in deep conversation with influential thinkers on race and racism, the book holds a critical mirror before American liberalism as neocolonialism, thereby transcending and enriching conversations in the fields of Islamic and religious studies. * J. Hammer, CHOICE *
In this richly documented and beautifully written book, Falguni Sheth, professor of philosophy at Emory University, shows how the intertwining of neoliberalism and neocolonialism-that specific type of exercise and justification of political power that characterizes the contemporary United States-produces a particular form of racism directed at Muslim women. * Magali Bessone, Ethics *
Book Information
ISBN 9780197547144
Author Falguni A. Sheth
Format Paperback
Page Count 272
Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
Publisher Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions(mm) 135mm * 201mm * 18mm