Falguni A. Sheth is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Hampshire College and the coeditor (with David Colander and Robert E. Prasch) of Race, Liberalism, and Economics.

Acknowledgment

Introduction: If You Don't Do Theory, Theory Will Do You

1. The Technology of Race and the Logics of Exclusion: The Unruly, Naturalization, and Violence

First Dimension: Taming the Unruly
Second Dimension: Naturalizing the Unruly
Race as a Tool for Sovereign Power: Dividing Populations
Enframing Race: Vulnerability and Violence

2. The Violence of Law: Sovereign Power, Vulnerable Populations, and Race

Law, Violence, and Undecidability
Sovereign Power
Unruly and Vulnerable Populations
The Racialization of a Population
The Unruly and the Vulnerable Manifested as Categories of Law: Immigrants, Aliens, Enemies

3. The Unruly: Strangeness, Madness, and Race

Strangeness
Huntington and Rawls: Islam, Madness, and the Menace to Liberalism
Difference, Madness, and Race
Liberal Hegemony and Heterogeneous Populations

4.The Newest Unruly Threat: Muslim Men and Women

The Racializing and Outcasting of Muslims in the United States
Culture, Heterogeneity, and the Foreigner: Unruly Women

5. Producing Race: Naturalizing the Exception Through the Rule of Law

Exceptions and the Rule of Law
Constitutional Rights: Political? Human?

6. Border-Populations: Boundary, Memory, and Moral Conscience

The Third Term: Pariah Populations as a Border-Guard
Pariahs, Border-Populations, and Moral Gauges: The Example of Black Americans
Furthering State Interests: Dividing Populations Against Each Other
Concealing and Unconcealing: Multiple Border-Guards and Outsiders

7.Technologies of Race and the Racialization of Immigrants: The Case of EarlyTwentieth-Century Asian Indians in North America

The Great "Hindu" Migration
Political Resistance or Insurgency?
Racialization
Invisibility

Conclusion: Toward a Political Philosophy of Race

Notes
Works Cited
Index