Uncomfortable Ethnographies: The Politics of Race and the Untimeliness of Critique

Sudeep Dasgupta

Book Reviews

Uncomfortable Ethnographies: The Politics of Race and the Untimeliness of Critique

Authors

Sudeep Dasgupta

Abstract

Review of: Gloria Wekker (2016) White Innocence. Durham: Duke University Press, 240 pp.

Author Biography

Sudeep Dasgupta

Sudeep Dasgupta is Associate Professor in the Department of Media Studies, the Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis (ASCA) and the Amsterdam Centre for Globalization Studies (ACGS) at the University of Amsterdam. His publications focus on the aesthetics and politics of displacement in visual culture, from the disciplinary perspectives of aesthetics, postcolonial and globalization studies, political philosophy, and feminist and queer theory. Book publications include the co-edited volume (with Mireille Rosello) What's Queer about Europe? (New York, Fordham University Press, 2014), and Constellations of the Transnational: Modernity, Culture, Critique (New York and Amsterdam, Rodopi, 2007).

Published

2017-11-05

How to Cite

Dasgupta, Sudeep. 2017. “Uncomfortable Ethnographies: The Politics of Race and the Untimeliness of Critique”. Krisis | Journal for Contemporary Philosophy 37 (2):50-54. https://krisis.eu/article/view/38848.