The first collection to theorise race and racism through the philosophy of Gilles DeleuzeIn this volume an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars inaugurates the Deleuzian study of race through a wide ranging and evocative array of case studies Deleuze and Guattari provided new concepts of how humans are differentiated through processes of state formation capitalism madness and desire While sexual difference has received much attention in Deleuze studies racial difference is a thornier problematic As this collection of essays shows Deleuze and Guattari had extremely original things to say about race and the politics of phenotype and origin is never far from any engaged consideration of how the world works Key FeaturesUnpacks the implicit and explicit references to race across Deleuze s body of work with a special focus on the Capitalism and Schizophrenia works written with GuattariCouples Deleuze with other theorists of race such as Foucault Butler and GilroyDraws examples from the arts current affairs and historyContributors include Claire Colebrook John E Drabinski Ian Buchanan and Laura U Marks