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Title

The Oxford handbook of philosophy and race / edited by Naomi Zack.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

Zack, Naomi, 1944-

Description

xix, 631 pages; 26 cm

Summary

The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race' provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. These original essays encompass the major topics and approaches in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and diversity while at the same time strengthening the conceptual arsenal of social and political philosophy. Over the course of the volume's ten topic-based sections, ideas about race held by Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche are supplemented by suppressed thought from the African diaspora, early twentieth-century African American perspectives and Native-, Asian-, and Latin-, American views. The contributors bring philosophical analysis to bear on the status of racial divisions as categories of humanity in the biological sciences, as well as within contemporary criticism and conceptual analysis. Essays present the special applications of American philosophy and continental philosophy to ideas of race as methodological alternatives to more analytic approaches. 0As a collection of analyses and assessments of 'race' in the real world, the volume pays trenchant and relevant attention to historical and contemporary racism and what it means to say that 'race' and racial identities are socially constructed. The essays analyze contemporary social issues including the importance of racial difference and identity in education, public health, medicine, IQ and other standardized tests, and sports. Additionally, the essays consider the societal limitations and structures provided by public policy and law.

Series Statement

[Oxford handbooks]

Uniform Title

Oxford handbooks.

Subjects

• Identity (Philosophical concept) > Black people
• Black people > Race identity
• Race > Philosophy
• Post-racialism
• Race > Social aspects

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction / Naomi Zack -- Ideas of race in the history of modern philosophy. John Locke, racism, slavery, and Indian lands / William Uzgalis -- David Hume on race / Aaron Garrett, Silvia Sebastiani -- Kantian racism and Kantian teleology / Bernard Boxill -- Nietzsche as a philosopher of racialized breeding / Robert Bernasconi -- Philosophy and the racial contract / Charles W. Mills.
• Pluralistic ideas of race. "Race" in eighteenth and nineteenth century discourse by Africans in the diaspora / Albert Mosley -- Indigeneity and US settler colonialism / Kyle Powys Whyte -- Critical transnational perspective to Asian America / Yen Le Espiritu -- Rights and identity in Latin American philosophy / Susana Nuccetelli -- Looking for Alain Locke / Leonard Harris.
• Metaphysics and philosophy of science. Race, definition, and science / Albert Atkin -- Minimalist biological race / Michael O. Hardimon -- Biological anthropology, population genetics, and race / John H. Relethford -- Metatheory of race / Joshua Glasgow -- Race and ethnicity / Jorge J.E. Gracia.
• American philosophy and ideas of race. Between reconstruction and elimination : Alain Locke's philosophy of race / Jacoby Adeshei Carter -- Du Bois, Appiah, and outlaw on racial identity / Chike Jeffers -- Cornel West, American pragmatism, and the post Obama racial/social dynamics / Clarence Sholé Johnson -- Insurrectionist ethics and racism / Lee A. McBride III -- History of African American political thought and antiracist critical theory / Robert Gooding-Williams.
• Continental philosophy and race. Hegel, history, and race / Rocío Zambrana -- Exploring the matter of race : a materialist philosophical inquiry / Stephen C. Ferguson II -- RAce and existentialism : the dialectic from mailer's "The white negro" to Memmi's Racism / JonathanJudaken -- From scientific racism to neoliberal biopolitics : using Foucault's toolkit / Ladelle McWhorter -- Phenomenology and race / Lewis R. Gordon.
• Racisms and neo-racisms. Quartet in the political persona of Ida B. Wells / Joy James -- To be Black, excess, and nonrecyclable / Janine Jones -- White privilege / Shannon Sullivan -- Racialization of muslims in the post 9/11 United States / Falguni A. Sheth -- State racism, state violence, vulnerable solidarity / Myisha Cherry.
• Social construction and racial identities. Black American social identity and its blackness / Lionel K. McPherson -- How mixed race is not constructed : US identities and perspectives / Noami Zack -- Racial identity, racial ontology, racial norms / Ron Mallon -- Is it moral to hold a racial identity? A cosmopolitan response / Jason D. Hill -- Effortful agon : learning to think and feel differently about race / Jacqueline Scott.
• Contemporary social issues : education, health, medicine, and sports. Racial profiling and the political philosophy of race / Annabelle Lever -- Race and K-12 education / Lawrence Blum -- Race, health disparities, incarceration, and structural inequality / Laurie Shrage -- Race in the biomedical sciences / Michael Root -- Intelligence, race, and psychological testing / Mark Alfana, LaTasha Holden, Andrew Conway -- "Race" to the finish line : African Americans, sports, and the "color-line" / John H. McClendon III.
• Public policy, political philosophy, and law. Reparations for slavery and Jim crow : its assumptions and implications / David Lyons -- Race, rectification , and apology / Rodney C. Roberts -- Concept of race and equal protection law / Tina Fernandes Botts -- Affirmative action for the future / James P. Sterba -- Ideal, nonideal, and empirical theories of social justice : the need for applicative justice in addressing injustice / Naomi Zack.
• Feminism, gender, and race. Ethnological theories of race/sex in nineteenth century Black thought : implications for the race/gender debate of the twenty-first century / Tommy J. Curry -- Jefferson's paradox, or a very brief history of Black women's sexuality, hip-hop, and American culture / T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting -- Violent weight of Whiteness : the existential and psychic price paid by Black male bodies / George Yancy -- Gender theory in philosophy of race / Naomi Zack -- Sting of shame : ridicule, rape, and social bonds / Cynthia Willett.

Call Number

Sc F 17-195

ISBN

• 9780190236953
• 0190236957

LCCN

2016012174

OCLC

956748256

Title

The Oxford handbook of philosophy and race / edited by Naomi Zack.

Publisher

New York : Oxford University Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

[Oxford handbooks]

Oxford handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Zack, Naomi, 1944- editor.

Research Call Number

Sc F 17-195