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Book SynopsisFor 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 invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race offers in one comprehensive volume newly written articles on race from the worldâs leading analytic and continental philosophers. It is, however, accessible to a readership beyond philosophy as well, providing a cohesive reference for a wide student and academic readership. The Companion synthesizes current philosophical understandings of race, providing 37 chapters on the history of philosophy and race as well as how race might be investigated in the usual frameworks of contemporary philosophy. The volume concludes with a section on philosophical approaches to some topics with broad interest outside of philosophy, like colonialism, affirmative action, eugenics, immigration, race and disability, and post-racialism.
By clearly explaining and carefully organizing the leading current philosophical thinking on race, this timely collection will help define the subject and bring renewed understanding of race to students and researchers in the humanities, social science, and sciences.
Trade Review"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
"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
Table of ContentsTable of Contents
Introduction
History and the Canon
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- Critical Philosophy of Race and Philosophical Historiography
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Robert Bernasconi
- Of Problem Moderns and Excluded Moderns: On the Essential Hybridity of Modernity
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Oluìfeìòmi TaìiìwoÌ
- Kant on Race and Transition
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Frank Kirkland
- Hegel on Race and Development
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Frank Kirkland
- Heidegger’s Shadow: Levinas, Arendt, and the Magician from Messkirch
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Jonathan Judaken
- Race-ing the Canon: American Icons, from Thomas Jefferson to Alain Locke
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Jacoby Carter
- At the Intersections: Existentialism, Critical Philosophies of Race, and Feminism
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Kathryn Gines
- Critical Theory: Adorno, Marcuse, and Angela Davis
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Arnold Farr
- Poststructuralism and Race: Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault
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Ladelle McWhorter
Alternative Traditions
- Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy
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Chike Jeffers
- Africana Thought
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Lewis Gordon
- Theorizing Indigeneity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism
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Kyle Whyte and Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
- The History of Racial Theories in China
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Frank Dikötter
- Racism in India
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Ania Loomba
Metaphysics and Ontology
- Analytic Metaphysics: Race and Racial Identity
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Jorge J. E. Gracia and Susan L. Smith
- American Experimentalism
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Harvey Cormier
- Race and Phenomenology (or Racializing Phenomenology)
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Gail Weiss
Epistemology, Cognition, and Language
- Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance
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José Medina
- Implicit Bias and Race
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Michael Brownstein
- The Mark of the Plural: Generic Generalizations and Race
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Daniel Wodak and Sarah-Jane Leslie
- Psychoanalysis and Race
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Kelly Oliver
Natural Science and Social Theory
- Race and Biology
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Rasmus Winther
- Eugenics
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Camisha Russell
- Framing Intersectionality
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Elena Ruiz
- Canonizing the Critical Race Artifice: An Analysis of Philosophy’s Gentrification of Critical Race Theory
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Tommy Curry
Aesthetics
- Race-ing Aesthetic Theory
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Monique Roelofs
- Joking About Race and Ethnicity
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Stephanie Patridge
- Anti-Black Racism: The Greatest Art Show on Earth
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Janine Jones
Ethics and the Political
- Racism
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Luc Faucher
- On Race and Solidarity: Reconsiderations
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Lucius Outlaw
- Race, Luck, and the Moral Emotions
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Samantha Vice
- Racism and Coloniality: The Invention of "Human(ity)" and the Three Pillars of the Colonial Matrix of Power (Racism, Sexism And Nature)
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Walter Mignolo
- White Supremacy
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Charles Mills
Politics and Policy
- On Post-Racialism: Or, How Color-Blindness Rebranded Is Still Vicious
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Ronald Sundstrom
- Philosophy of Race and the Ethics of Immigration
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Jose Jorge Mendoza
- Mixed-Race
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Jared Sexton
- Racism, State Violence, and the Homeland
Falguni Sheth
