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The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race book cover

1st Edition

The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race

Edited By Paul Taylor, Linda Alcoff, Luvell Anderson Copyright 2018
590 Pages
by Routledge

590 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

590 Pages 8 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has... Read more

Introduction Paul Taylor, Linda Alcoff, and Luvell Anderson

Part 1: History and the Canon 

1. Critical Philosophy of Race and Philosophical Historiography Robert Bernasconi

2. Of Problem Moderns and Excluded Moderns: On the Essential Hybridity of Modernity Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

3. Kant on Race and Transition Frank M. Kirkland

4. Hegel on Race and Development Frank M. Kirkland

5. Heidegger’s Shadow: Levinas, Arendt, and the Magician From Messkirch Jonathan Judaken

6. Race-ing the Canon: American Icons, From Thomas Jefferson to Alain Locke Jacoby Adeshei Carter

7. At the Intersections: Existentialism, Critical Philosophies of Race, and Feminism Kathryn T. Gines

8. Critical Theory: Adorno, Marcuse, and Angela Davis Arnold L. Farr

9. Post-structuralism and Race: Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault Ladelle McWhorter

Part 2: Alternative Traditions

10. Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy Chike Jeffers

11. Africana Thought Lewis R. Gordon

12. Theorizing Indigeneity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner and Kyle Whyte

13. The History of Racial Theories in China Frank Dikötter

14. Racism in India Ania Loomba

Part 3: Metaphysics and Ontology

15. Analytic Metaphysics: Race and Racial Identity Jorge J. E. Gracia and Susan L. Smith

16. American Experimentalism Harvey Cormier

17. Phenomenology and Race (or Racializing Phenomenology) Gail Weiss

Part 4: Epistemology, Cognition, and Language

18. Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance José Medina

19. Implicit Bias and Race Michael Brownstein

20. The Mark of the Plural: Generic Generalizations and Race Daniel Wodak and Sarah-Jane Leslie

21. Psychoanalysis and Race Kelly Oliver

Part 5: Natural Science and Social Theory

22. Race and Biology Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther

23. Eugenics Camisha Russell

24. Framing Intersectionality Elena Ruíz

25. Canonizing the Critical Race Artifice: An Analysis of Philosophy’s Gentrification of Critical Race Theory Tommy J. Curry

Part 6: Aesthetics

26. Race-ing Aesthetic Theory Monique Roelofs

27. Joking About Race and Ethnicity Stephanie Patridge

28. Anti-black Racism: The Greatest Art Show on Earth Janine Jones

Part 7: Ethics and the Political

29. Racism Luc Faucher

30. On Race and Solidarity: Reconsiderations Lucius Turner Outlaw

31. Race, Luck, and the Moral Emotions Samantha Vice

32. Racism and Coloniality: The Invention of “HUMAN(ITY)” and the Three Pillars of the Colonial Matrix of Power (Racism, Sexism, and Nature) Walter D. Mignolo

33. White Supremacy Charles W. Mills

Part 8: Politics and Policy

34. On Post-racialism: Or, How Color-Blindness Rebranded Is Still Vicious Ronald R. Sundstrom

35. Philosophy of Race and the Ethics of Immigration José Jorge Mendoza

36. Mixed-Race Jared Sexton

37. Racism, State Violence, and the Homeland Falguni A. Sheth.

Index

Biography

Paul C. Taylor is Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at the Pennsylvania State University, where he also serves as Associate Dean for Undergraduate Studies. He has written three books, including Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics and On Obama, and is one of the founding co-editors of the journal Critical Philosophy of Race.

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center, and Visiting Research Professor at Australian Catholic University. She was President of the American Philosophical Association, Eastern Division, for 2012-2013. Her books include The Future of Whiteness and Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self.　

Luvell Anderson is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. Before coming to Memphis, he was Alain Locke Postdoctoral Fellow at Pennsylvania State University. His research lies principally in philosophy of language, philosophy of race, and aesthetics. He has published articles on the semantics of racial slurs and on racist humor.

"This important and timely volume addresses foundational questions concerning the impact of racial ideologies and practices on the development of Western philosophy. These interventions, profound in their ontological, epistemological and political implications, will be of keen interest to philosophers and other scholars working to better grasp the enduring legacies of racism." - Steven Gregory, Columbia University, USA

"A timely and telling collection on the philosophy of race in the critical tradition. The volume grapples in the terms of both the European and counter-European philosophical traditions concerning the driving questions of race and racism today. This is a critically valuable study of philosophical canons and disciplinary practices regarding race. A volume that is as productive to think about as it is to teach." - David Theo Goldberg, University of California, Irvine, USA

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