The Philosophy of Race
Routledge
2011-12-14
1,584 pages
Hardback: 978-0-415-49602-5
Edited by:
Paul Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy; African American Studies
Pennsylvania State University
Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important foundational and cutting-edge scholarship.
Volume I (âPhilosophy and the History of Race, Race in the History of Philosophyâ) brings together the key texts to have shaped the most widely recognized forms of ârace thinkingâ. The second and third volumes in the collection, meanwhile, explore the questions that race raises in philosophyâs traditional subfields. Volume II (âRacial Being and Knowingâ) gathers the best and most influential work to unravel the implications of racial practices for metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology. And Volume III (âRace-ing Beauty, Goodness, and Rightâ) collects the key scholarship to deal with the consequences of racial practices for aesthetics, ethics, and politics.
The final volume in the collection (âIntersections and Positionsâ) assembles the most important work to grapple with the methodological and geographical complications that accompany a commitment to racialism. (Race is an inherently contextual phenomenon and some of the material gathered in this volumeâin particular, that exploring racialization in Japan, Brazil, and Norwayâprovides a refreshing counterweight to the philosophical zeal for abstraction.)
The Philosophy of Race is edited by Paul C. Taylor, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual and historic context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.
CONTENTS
- Volume I: HISTORY
- Part 1: Philosophical Historiography
- 1. Cornel West, âA Genealogy of Modern Racismâ, Prophesy Deliverance! Towards an Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity (Westminster Press, 1982), pp. 47â68.
- 2. Robert Bernasconi, âRace, Culture, Historyâ (plenary lecture at Sodertorn University, 28 May 2009), pp. 11â46.
- 3. David Theo Goldberg, âThe End(s) of Raceâ, Postcolonial Studies, 2004, 7, 2, 211â30.
- Part 2: Early Figures and Moments
- 4. Harry Bracken, âPhilosophy and Racismâ, Philosophia, 1978, 8, 2â3, 241â60.
- 5. Richard Popkin, âHumeâs Racism Reconsideredâ, The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought (Brill, 1992), pp. 64â75.
- 6. Meg Armstrong, â”The Effects of Blackness”: Gender, Race, and the Sublime in Aesthetic Theories of Burke and Kantâ, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 1996, 54, 3, 213â36.
- 7. Bernard Boxill and Thomas E. Hill, âKant and Raceâ, in Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism (Oxford University Press, 2003), pp. 448â71.
- 8. Patricia Purtschert, âOn the Limit of Spirit: Hegelâs Racism Revisitedâ, Philosophy & Social Criticism, 2010, 36, 9, 1039â51.
- 9. Tom Jeannot, âMarx, Capitalism, and Raceâ, in Harry Van der Linden (ed.), Democracy, Racism, and Prisons (Philosophy Documentation Center, 2007), pp. 69â92.
- Part 3: Late Modern Race Theory in/and the Canon
- 10. Berel Lang, âHeidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Wordâ, in Julie K. Ward and Tommy L. Lott (eds.), Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays (Blackwell, 2002), pp. 205â21.
- 11. Kathryn Gines, âRace Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendtâs The Origins of Totalitarianismâ, in Dan Stone and Richard King (eds.), Imperialism, Slavery, Race, and Genocide: The Legacy of Hannah Arendt (Berghahn, 2007), pp. 38â53.
- 12. Jonathan Judaken, âSartre on Racism: From Existential Phenomenology to Globalization and “the New Racism”â, in Jonathan Judaken (ed.), Race After Sartre (SUNY Press, 2008), pp. 23â54.
- Part 4: Critical Race Theory and the New Canon
- 13. Diego von Vacano, âRace and Political Theory: Lessons from Latin Americaâ, in Jorge Gracia (ed.), Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity (Cornell University Press, 2007), pp. 248â66.
- 14. Howard McGary, âDouglass on Racial Assimilation and Racial Institutionsâ, in Bill E. Lawson and Frank Kirkland (eds.), Frederick Douglass: A Critical Reader (Blackwell Publishing, 1999), pp. 50â63.
- 15. Nancy Fraser, âAnother Pragmatism: Alain Locke, Critical “Race” Theory, and the Politics of Cultureâ, in Morris Dickstein (ed.), The Revival of Pragmatism (Duke University Press, 1998), pp. 157â75.
- 16. Vivian M. May, âThinking from the Margins, Acting at the Intersections: Anna Julia Cooperâs A Voice from the Southâ, Hypatia, 2004, 19, 2, 74â91.
- 17. K. A. Appiah, âThe Uncompleted Argument: DuBois and the Illusion of Raceâ, Critical Inquiry, 1985, 12, 1, 21â37.
- 18. W. E. B. Du Bois, Dusk of Dawn: An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept [1940] (Transaction Publishers, 1992), pp. 97â103, 114â17, 129â33, 137â40.
- 19. Frantz Fanon, âThe Lived Experience of the Blackâ, Black Skin, White Masks, trans. R. Philcox [1952] (Grove Press, 1967), pp. 78â99.
- 20. Lewis R. Gordon, âRacism, Colonialism, and Anonymity: Social Theory and Embodied Agencyâ, Fanon and the Crisis of European Man: A Essay on Philosophy and the Human Sciences (Routledge, 1995), pp. 37â67.
- Volume II: Racial Being and Knowing
- Part 5: What Races Are, What âRaceâ Means
- 21. Charles W. Mills, â”But What Are You Really?” The Metaphysics of Raceâ, Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race (Cornell University Press, 1998), pp. 41â66.
- 22. Lucius Outlaw, âConserve Races? In Defense of W. E. B. Du Boisâ, Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folks (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 139â62.
- 23. Ron Mallon, âPassing, Traveling, and Reality: Social Construction and the Metaphysics of Raceâ, Nous, 2004, 38, 644â73.
- 24. Robin O. Andreasen, âA New Perspective on the Race Debateâ, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, 1998, XLIX, 2, 199â225.
- 25. Philip Kitcher, âDoes “Race” have a Future?â, Philosophy and Public Affairs, 2007, 35, 4, 293â317.
- 26. David Theo Goldberg, Racist Culture (Blackwell, 1993), pp. 80â9.
- 27. S. Haslanger, âLanguage, Politics and “the Folk”: Looking for “the Meaning” of “Race”â, The Monist, 2010, 93, 2, 169â87.
- 28. Joshua Glasgow, Julie L. Shulman, and Enrique G. Covarrubias, âThe Ordinary Conception of Race in the United States and its Relation to Racial Attitudes: A New Approachâ, Journal of Cognition and Culture, 2009, 9, 1â2, 15â38.
- Part 6: What Racial Identities Are
- 29. Linda MartĂn-Alcoff, âPhilosophy and Racial Identityâ, Philosophy Today, 1997, 41, 1, 67â76.
- 30. K. Anthony Appiah, âSynthesis: For Racial Identitiesâ, Color Conscious (Princeton University Press, 1996), pp. 75â105.
- 31. Judith Butler, âPassing, Queering: Nella Larsenâs Psychoanalytic Challengeâ, Bodies That Matter (Routledge, 1993), pp. 167â86.
- 32. Paul C. Taylor, Race: A Philosophical Introduction (Polity, 2004), pp. 84â7, 112â15.
- Part 7: Power, Knowledge, Self-Knowledge, and Experience
- 33. Charles Mills, âWhite Ignoranceâ, in Shannon Sullivan and Nancy Tuana (eds.), Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance (SUNY Press, 2007), pp. 11â38.
- 34. Anika Maaza Mann, âRace and Feminist Standpoint Theoryâ, in Kathryn Gines, Donna Dale-Marcano, and Maria del Guadelupe Davidson, Convergences: Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy (SUNY Press, 2010), pp. 105â20.
- 35. Shannon Sullivan, âIgnorance and Habitâ, Revealing Whiteness (University of Indiana Press, 2006), pp. 17â44.
- 36. Ned Block, âHow Heritability Misleads About Raceâ, Boston Review, 1996, 20, 6, 30â35.
- 37. Michael Root, âThe Problem of Race in Medicineâ, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2001, 31, 1, 20â39.
- 38. Ronald Sundstrom, âRace and Place: Social Space in the Production of Human Kindsâ, Philosophy and Geography, 2003, 6, 1, 83â95.
- Volume III: Race-ing Beauty, Goodness, and Right
- Part 8: Racism
- 39. Kwame Anthony Appiah, âRacismsâ, in D. T. Goldberg (ed.), Anatomy of Racism (University of Minnesota Press, 1990), pp. 3â17.
- 40. Lewis R. Gordon, âRacialism, Racism, Racialists, Racistsâ, Bad Faith and Anti-Black Racism (Humanity Books, 1999), pp. 67â77.
- 41. J. L. A. Garcia, âThe Heart of Racismâ, Journal of Social Philosophy, 1996, 2, 5â45.
- 42. Tommie Shelby, âIs Racism in the Heart?â, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2002, 33, 411â20.
- 43. L. Faucher and E. Machery, âRacism: Against Jorge Garciaâs Moral and Psychological Monismâ, Philosophy of the Social Sciences, 2009, 39, 1, 41â62.
- 44. Robert Bernasconi, âThe Policing of Race Mixing: The Place of Biopower within the History of Racismsâ, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 2010, 7, 2, 205â16.
- Part 9: Race, the Right, and the Good
- 45. Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Cornell University Press, 1997), pp. 1â19.
- 46. Anna Stubblefield, âRaces as Familiesâ, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2001, 32, 1, 99â112.
- 47. L. Blum, âThree Kinds of Race-Related Solidarityâ, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2007, 38, 53â72.
- 48. Linda MartĂn Alcoff, âLatino/as, Asian Americans, and the Black-White Binaryâ, Journal of Ethics, 2003, 7, 1, 5â27.
- 49. Howard McGary, âPsychological Violence, Physical Violence, and Racial Oppressionâ, in Lewis R. Gordon (ed.), Existence in Black: An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy (Routledge, 1996), pp. 263â72.
- 50. Samantha Vice, âHow Do I Live in This Strange Place?â, Journal of Social Philosophy, 2010, 41, 3, 323â42.
- Part 10: Selected Issues in Racial Politics
- 51. Richard Wasserstrom, âPreferential Treatment, Color-Blindness, and the Evils of Racism and Racial Discriminationâ, Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association, 1987, 61, 1, 27â42.
- 52. Howard McGary, âAchieving Democratic Equality: Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Reparationsâ, Journal of Ethics, 2003, 7, 1, 93â113.
- 53. Angela Y. Davis, âRacialized Punishment and Prison Abolitionâ, in Tommy L. Lott (ed.), A Companion to African-American Philosophy (Blackwell Publishing, 2003), pp. 360â9.
- 54. Glen Coulthard, âSubjects of Empire: Indigenous Peoples and the “Politics of Recognition”â, Contemporary Political Theory, 2007, 6, 4, 437â60.
- Part 11: Aesthetics
- 55. Monique Roelofs, âRacialization as an Aesthetic Production: What Does the Aesthetic Do for Whiteness and Blackness and Vice Versa?â, in George Yancy (ed.), White on White/Black on Black (Rowman and Littlefield, 2005), pp. 83â124.
- 56. Dan Flory, âSpike Lee and the Sympathetic Racistâ, Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism, 2006, 64, 1, 67â79.
- 57. Mariana Ortega, âOthering the Other: The Spectacle of Katrina for our Racial Entertainment Pleasureâ, Contemporary Aesthetics, 2009, 2.
- 58. Robert Gooding-Williams, âAesthetics and Receptivity: Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, Astaireâ, Look, a Negro! Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and Politics (Routledge, 2006), pp. 43â68.
- 59. Falguni A. Sheth, âThe Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy Between Colonialism and Global Capitalismâ, Contemporary Aesthetics, 2009, 2.
- Volume IV: Intersections and Positions
- Part 12: Intersectionality
- 60. Nira Yuval-Davis, âIntersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of Belongingâ, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 2007, 10, 4, 561â74.
- 61. Patricia Hill Collins, âItâs All in the Family: Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nationâ, Hypatia, 1998, 13, 3, 62â82.
- 62. Jorge J. E. Gracia, âThe Nature of Ethnicity with Special Reference to Hispanic/Latino Identityâ, Public Affairs Quarterly, 1999, 13, 1, 25â42.
- 63. Ladelle McWhorter, âSex, Race, and Biopower: A Foucauldian Genealogyâ, Hypatia, 2004, 19, 3, 38â62.
- 64. Stuart Hall, âRace, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominanceâ, Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism (UNESCO, 1980), pp. 305â45.
- 65. Ătienne Balibar, âUprisings in the Banlieuesâ, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, 2007, 14, 1, 47â71.
- Part 13: Mapping Racial Imaginaries: Inventing the Other
- 66. Edward Said, âIntroduction to Orientalismâ, in Moustafa Bayoumi and Andrew Rubin (eds.), The Edward Said Reader (Vintage, 2000), pp. 67â74, 78â81, 90â3.
- 67. David Haekwon Kim, âOrientalism and America Enlargedâ, Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies, 2003, 2, 2, 30â4.
- 68. V. Y. Mudimbe, âDiscourse of Power and Knowledge of Othernessâ, The Invention of Africa (Indiana University Press, 1988), pp. 1â23.
- 69. Mahmood Mamdani, When Victims Become Killers (Princeton University Press, 2001), pp. 41, 56â9, 73â5, 80â90, 98â102.
- 70. David Theo. Goldberg, âRacial Europeanizationâ, Ethnic & Racial Studies, 2006, 29, 2, 331â64.
- 71. Nadia Abu El-Haj, âRacial Palestinianization and the Janus-Faced Nature of the Israeli Stateâ, Patterns of Prejudice, 2010, 44, 1, 27â41.
- Part 14: Positioning Critical Identities: Inventing Self and Community
- 72. Sonia Sikka, âIn What Sense are Dalits Black?â (presentation to âBeyond the WhiteâBlack Binaryâ, conference held at Pennsylvania State University, 12 November 2010).
- 73. Linda MartĂn Alcoff, âMestizo Identityâ, in Naomi Zack (ed.), American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity (Rowman and Littlefield, 1995), pp. 257â78.