Description: Explores the relationship between race, knowledge, and violence that underpins U.S. modernity.
Review Quotes: "Freedom with Violence is a one of a kind, once in a generation book. Chandan Reddy argues that 'American political modernity' depends absolutely on a notion of freedom crafted out of a constitutive violence which takes the form of race. In chapters on Du Bois and the logics of nationality and territoriality; Nella Larson and the history of black alienation; immigration and sexuality; and gay marriage and the perils of legal recognition, he pulls his argument into tighter and tighter spirals, connecting his thesis about race to brilliantly original accounts of sexuality and making stunning connections between North American racial politics and European colonialism. This is a classic, landmark study."--Judith Halberstam, author of The Queer Art of Failure