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'Given the racial complexity of the United States - not to mention the racism of its foundations and its persistence - why is it that the most influential white philosophers have not addressed the issue of race, its social construction and myth, and the problems it raises on a daily basis'? This title answers this question.

Table of Contents

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Roy Martinez

Part One

1. Virtually Invisible: On Seeing in the Dark

John D. Caputo

2. Personal Reflections on Racism in America

Joseph Margolis

3. The Dangers of Confession: White Contributions to a Continental Philosophy of Race

Shannon Sullivan

4. Racism and Biopower

Ladelle McWhorter

Part Two

5. Social Minimalism in a Liberal Culture and the Problem of Racial Hubris

Cynthia Willett

6. Theorizing Difference: Phenomenology Versus Post-structuralism

David Couzens Hoy

7. Continental Philosophy and the Concept of Race

Georgia Warnke

8. Philosophy in Chains

John Ladd

List of Contributors

Index

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      Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 24/02/2010
      ISBN13: 9780271036397, 978-0271036397
      ISBN10: 0271036397

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      'Given the racial complexity of the United States - not to mention the racism of its foundations and its persistence - why is it that the most influential white philosophers have not addressed the issue of race, its social construction and myth, and the problems it raises on a daily basis'? This title answers this question.

      Table of Contents

      Contents

      Preface

      Acknowledgments

      Introduction

      Roy Martinez

      Part One

      1. Virtually Invisible: On Seeing in the Dark

      John D. Caputo

      2. Personal Reflections on Racism in America

      Joseph Margolis

      3. The Dangers of Confession: White Contributions to a Continental Philosophy of Race

      Shannon Sullivan

      4. Racism and Biopower

      Ladelle McWhorter

      Part Two

      5. Social Minimalism in a Liberal Culture and the Problem of Racial Hubris

      Cynthia Willett

      6. Theorizing Difference: Phenomenology Versus Post-structuralism

      David Couzens Hoy

      7. Continental Philosophy and the Concept of Race

      Georgia Warnke

      8. Philosophy in Chains

      John Ladd

      List of Contributors

      Index

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