Mark W Driscoll

The Whites Are Enemies of Heaven

Climate Caucasianism and Asian Ecological Protection

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Produktbeschreibung

Mark W. Driscoll examines Western imperialism in East Asia throughout the nineteenth century and the devastating effects of what he calls climate caucasianism—the West's racialized pursuit of capital at the expense of people of color, women, and the environment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 862g
• ISBN-13: 9781478010166
• ISBN-10: 1478010169
• Artikelnr.: 59323611

Autorenporträt

Mark W. Driscoll is Professor of East Asian Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He is author of Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque: The Living, Dead, and Undead in Japanese Imperialism, 1895–1945 , and the editor and translator of "Kannani" and "Document of Flames": Two Japanese Colonial Novels, both also published by Duke University Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface and Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction. The Speed Race(r) and the Stopped, Incarce-Races  xiii
1. J-h¿d against "Gorge-Us" White Men  47
2. Ecclesiastical Superpredators  85
Intertext I. White Dude's Burden (The Indifference That Makes a
Difference)  131
3. Queer Parenting  137
4. Levelry and Revelry (Inside the Gelaohui Opium Room)  171
Intertext II. Madame Butterfly and "Negro Methods" in China  209
5. Last Samurai/First Extractive Capitalist  223
6. Blow (Opium Smoke) back: The Third War for Drugs in Sichuan  255
Conclusion. "Undermining" China and Beyond Climate Caucasianism  299
Notes  311
Bibliography  325
Index  353