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Book SynopsisThis book introduces and explores the relation between race and phenomenology through varied African American, Latina, Asian American, and White American perspectives. Phenomenology is best known as a descriptive endeavor to more accurately describe our experience of the world. These essays examine the ways in which this relation between phenomenology and race acts as a site of racial meaning. Philosophy of race conceives race as a social construction. Because of the sedimentation of racial meaning into the very structure and practices of society, the socially constructed meanings about features of the body are mistaken as natural. Hence although racial meaning is theoretically recognized as socially constructed, during an every-day interaction, racial meaning is mistaken as inevitable and natural. Phenomenology facilitates precisely understanding this confusion of a social construction as natural. Race is a phenomenon. Ideal for advanced students in phenomenology and philosophy of race, this volume pushes phenomenological method forward by exploring its relation to questions within philosophy of race.
Trade ReviewRace as Phenomena is an accessible collection of reflections on concrete and theoretical aspects of race in the current post post-racial moment. The shared phenomenological approach encompasses experiences and identities of white, Asian, Latinx, and Black Americans, as well as Muslim feminism. The combined perspective is engaging and insightful. -- Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy, University of Oregon
Race as Phenomena is a vital contribution to a growing field. Du Bois once complained that social theorists too often prize abstractions over what he called “the hot reality of real life.” The contributors to this valuable collection avoid that mistake while also suggesting the remarkable promise of phenomenological approaches to philosophical race theory. Professor Lee is to be commended! -- Paul C. Taylor, W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy, Vanderbilt University
Lee’s anthology gathers a range of fascinating thinkers on topics that integrate phenomenological approaches with a broad range of topics. From essays on the veil, people of color, state violence against Black women, and on Blackness and whiteness, this volume is sure to interest scholars, students, and lay readers in philosophy, race studies, and feminist theory. -- Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor, Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Emory University
Table of ContentsIntroduction / 1. Race Consciousness, Phenomenologically Understood, Lewis Gordon / 2. Social Motility in Black, George Yancy / 3. The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Criminality: A Black Women's Phenomenological Account, Shaeeda A. Mensah / 4. 'New Mestizas,' 'World-Travelers,' and 'Dasein': Phenomenology and the Multi-Voiced, Multi-Cultural Self, Mariana Ortega / 5. Toward Seeing Otherwise, Emily S. Lee / 6. 'You are in the dark, in the car,' Yes, You: 'Second' Consciousness, a Philopoethical Thinking with Claudia Rankine", Kyoo Lee / 7. The Constitution of a People, Boram Jeong / 8. Challenging Conceptions of the 'Normal' Subject in Phenomenology, Christine Wieseler / 9. Social Psychology, Phenomenology, & the Indeterminate Content of Unreflective Racial Bias, Alex Madva / 10. Becoming White: White Children and the Erasure of Black Suffering, Shannon Sullivan / 11. Seeing Like a Cop: A Phenomenology of Racist Police Violence, Lisa Guenther / 12. The Phenomenology of White Identity, Linda Martin Alcoff / Bibliography / Index
