Miller, J. Reid

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In general, we think that a person's actions should not be judged according to their physical features, such as race. In fact, we see evaluations based on a subject's race or other bodily traits as illegitimate. But 'Stain removal' argues that our perception of a person's action…

'Stain Removal' challenges the idea that we are born as unblemished subjects, unmarked by qualitative associations of value and race. Arguing that value is inheritable as well as mediated through race, the book advances a theory of the evaluative nature of all representation.

Martin Luther King, Jr. famously expressed his dream that his children would "one day not be judged by the color of thie skin, but by the content of their character." In his vision, a person's ethical qualities would be understood in spite of his or her body rather than through …