Jewels and Ladders: Visualizing and Resisting the Racialization and Dehumanization of E/Im-migrants and Refugees

IF 1.3 Q2 ETHNIC STUDIES

Critical Philosophy of Race Pub Date : 2019-01-17 DOI:10.5325/CRITPHILRACE.7.1.0187

John Kaiser Ortiz

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Abstract

Abstract:While attending seminary school in Pennsylvania, Martin Luther King Jr. cultivated “the arts of pulpit oratory,” the habit of visualizing philosophical problems and other objects of criticism by invoking many-sided jewels and multi-runged ladders. This article appropriates King’s jewels and ladders as tools for humanizing juridico-discursive practice toward migrants/emigrants/immigrants and refugees. By drawing attention to the process whereby persons are subordinated and become subpersons, we are able to see how the standpoint of racialized dehumanization is historically patterned and furthermore involves an overlap of legal, political, and artistic expressions. Consequently, jewels and ladders become theoretical as well as practical tools for visualizing the moral standing of migrant/refugee populations in modernity.

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珠宝和梯子:对移民和难民的种族化和非人化的可视化和抵制

摘要：在宾夕法尼亚州的神学院就读期间，马丁·路德·金培养了“讲坛演讲艺术”，即通过援引多方面的珠宝和多阶梯来形象化哲学问题和其他批评对象的习惯。这篇文章借用了国王的珠宝和梯子作为工具，使针对移民/移民/移民和难民的法律话语实践人性化。通过提请人们注意人服从并成为亚人的过程，我们能够看到种族化非人性化的观点是如何在历史上形成的，而且还涉及法律、政治和艺术表达的重叠。因此，珠宝和梯子成为可视化移民/难民群体在现代社会中道德地位的理论和实践工具。

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Critical Philosophy of Race ETHNIC STUDIES-

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期刊介绍： The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.