The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In "Race and the Politics of the Exception," Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in the United States.

McKnight organizes his book into three sections, beginning with a theoretical section about racial politics in the United States. Using theorists such as Benjamin, Agamben, and Schmitt, McKnight discusses how the idea of racial communities went from being constituted...

The traditional assumption today about race is that it is not political; that it has no political content and is a matter of individual beliefs and attitudes. In "Race and the Politics of the Exception," Utz McKnight argues that race is in fact political and defines how it functions as a politics in the United States.

McKnight organizes his book into three sections, beginning with a theoretical section about racial politics in the United States. Using theorists such as Benjamin, Agamben, and Schmitt, McKnight discusses how the idea of racial communities went from being constituted...