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"What were the socioeconomic conditions and factors that produced the instances in which riots erupted in northern U.S. cities in 1964? This book examines the year in American history that brought a new era in race relations to the nation."--Provided by publisher

Intro -- VIOLENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMAGINARY -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART ONE. VIOLENCE, REFLEXIVITY, CRITIQUE -- 1. THINKING IN IMAGES -- VIOLENCE AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMAGINARY -- FEMINISM AND THE MOTIF OF VIOLENCE -- GENEALOGY AND VIOLENCE -- 2. PHILOSOPHY'S SHAME -- SHAME AND THE PHILOSOPHICAL IMAGINARY -- PHILOSOPHY AND ITS OTHERS -- SHAME AND THE DISCOURSE ON DIFFERENCE -- 3. VIOLENCE, VISIBILITY, AND IDENTITY POLITICS -- PHILOSOPHY, IDENTITY, AND VIOLENCE -- THE DEFENSE OF IDENTITY POLITICS -- THE VISIBLE AND THE REAL -- SEXUALITY AND SPECTACLE -- PART TWO. VULNERABILITY, AMBIGUITY,RESPONSIBILITY -- 4. THE PROVOCATIONS OF VULNERABILITY -- FEMINIST PHILOSOPHY AND THE VULNERABLE BODY -- ETHICAL AMBIGUITY AND CORPOREAL VULNERABILITY -- A PHENOMENOLOGY OF TOUCH -- FRAMING VIOLENCE AND VULNERABILITY -- 5. WHAT'S IN A NAME? -- UNIQUENESS AND THE HUMAN -- ONTOLOGICAL VIRTUE -- ONTOLOGICAL VICE -- AN ETHICS OF THE SINGULAR -- 6. ASSUMING AMBIGUITY -- AMBIGUITY IN BEAUVOIR'S EARLY WORK -- VULNERABILITY REVISITED -- ASSUMING AMBIGUITY -- FREEDOM AND VIOLENCE -- CONCLUSION: WITNESSING THE IMAGINARY -- NOTES -- REFERENCES -- INDEX -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

Race Riots : Structural Factors, Cultural Framing, and Precipitating Events -- Racial Pogroms -- "Even If We Have To Choke The Cape Fear With Carcasses" : Case Studies of Six Racial Pogroms : Wilmington, 1898; New Orleans, 1900; Atlanta, 1906; East St. Louis, 1917; Tulsa, 1921; and Beaumont, 1943 -- The "Red Summer" of 1919 -- "Look Out : You're Next for Hell" : Case Studies of Longview; Washington, D.C.; Chicago; Knoxville; Omaha; and Phillips County -- Transitions : The Changing Nature of Race Riots -- Epilogue.

"Humanism" is a term that has designated a remarkably disparate set of ideologies. Nonetheless, strains of religious, secular, existential, and Marxist humanism have tended to circumscribe the category of the human with reference to the themes of reason, autonomy, judgment, and freedom. This essay examines the emergence of a new humanistic discourse in feminist theory, one that instead finds its provocation in the unwilled passivity and vulnerability of the human body, and in the vulnerability of the human body to suffering and violence. Grounded in a descriptive ontology that privileges figures such as exposure, dispossession, vulnerability, and "precariousness," this new humanism is a corporeal humanism. This essay probes both the promise and the limitations of this emergent humanism with particular reference to recent work by feminist philosophers Judith Butler and Adriana Cavarero.