多元种族民主的不可能

IF 0.2 4区社会学 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

POSTMODERN CULTURE Pub Date : 2021-12-24 DOI:10.1353/pmc.2021.0011

Christopher Chamberlin

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摘要

摘要：民主在废除奴隶制后变得现代，并呈现出其主要特征——种族。矛盾的是，政治理论无法将包含前奴隶的民主概念或不规定种族种族灭绝的后奴隶民主概念形式化。这篇文章表明，这种悖论是结构性的，并追踪了它从亚历克西斯·德·托克维尔和古斯塔夫·德·博蒙特19世纪对废除死刑幽灵的思考到联合国教科文组织战后关于种族的声明的转变，特别是通过克劳德·莱维·斯特劳斯和W.E.B.杜波依斯随后对种族资本主义的批评。最后，它反思了战争伦理是多种族民主不可能实现的具体化。

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The Impossibility of Multiracial Democracy

Abstract:Democracy becomes modern after it abolishes slavery and assumes its primary feature—race. Paradoxically, political theory cannot formalize a notion of democracy that incorporates the ex-slave or a post-slavery democracy that does not prescribe racial genocide. This essay shows that this paradox is structural, and tracks its transformation from Alexis de Tocqueville’s and Gustave de Beaumont’s nineteenth-century meditations on the specter of abolition to UNESCO’s postwar statements on race, particularly through Claude Lévi-Strauss’s and W.E.B. Du Bois’s subsequent critiques of racial capitalism. It concludes by reflecting on the ethics of war as a materialization of the impossibility of multiracial democracy.

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1990 as a groundbreaking experiment in scholarly publishing on the Internet, Postmodern Culture has become a leading electronic journal of interdisciplinary thought on contemporary culture. PMC offers a forum for commentary, criticism, and theory on subjects ranging from identity politics to the economics of information.