Ontological Branding: Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World

Bonard Iván Molina García

doi:10.5771/9781666902365

Summary

Using Heideggerian tool ontology to investigate antiblack racism in the United States, Ontological Branding: Power, Privilege, and White Supremacy in a Colorblind World provides a novel account of race and racial justice. Bonard Iván Molina García argues that race is best understood as a tool to brand persons of color, particularly Black persons, as subordinate in order to privilege whiteness as the proper state of persons in a world created by and for persons and in which all (and only) persons are equal. Persons of color, particularly Black persons, are thus excluded from full participation in the rights and privileges of personhood and instead relegated to ways of being in service to the white world. This white supremacist system was created through law, and despite significant changes, U.S. law’s current approach to racial justice through colorblindness only serves to safeguard white supremacy. Racial justice instead requires a critical race consciousness that accounts for the ontology of race. Racial justice requires ontological justice.

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Edition: 1/2022
Copyright Year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-0235-8
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-0236-5
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 142
Product Type: Monograph

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
1. Notes No access
1. Mere Things, Persons, and Tools No access
2. Worlds, Familiarity, and Invisibility No access
3. Notes No access
1. Race as Ontological Brand No access
2. Gender and Brandedness No access
3. Class and Brandedness No access
4. Intersectionality No access
5. Notes No access
1. The Branding Iron: Reconciling Equality and Subordination No access
2. The Birth of a (White) Nation: Creating and Using the Brand of Blackness No access
3. Nothing to See Here: Turning a Blind Eye to Race No access
4. Notes No access
1. Racing, Ontological Subordination, and Ontological Privilege No access
2. Blackness and Ontological Subordination No access
3. Whiteness and Ontological Privilege No access
4. Notes No access
1. Making the Invisible Visible No access
2. Creating Ontological Equality No access
3. Notes No access
Conclusion No access Pages 127 - 130
1. Supreme Court Decisions No access
2. Published Literature No access
Index No access Pages 137 - 140
About the Author No access Pages 141 - 142