Sketches of Moral Duress: On the Analytics of White Liberal Ethicality—Mediating Crisis in the U.S. National (Racial) Form.

The author offers a history and radical political theorization of the analytics of white (liberal) ethicality in post-Reconstruction and mid-twentieth-century U.S. settler society. Topics discussed include the analytics of white ethicality as an apparatus of modern power/knowledge and the historical regimes of white liberal ethicality that form the conceptual grids against which the comportment, self-fashioning and politico-moral enunciation of black flesh was apprehended, judged and measured.