Blackness Visible : : Essays on Philosophy and Race / / Charles W. Mills.
Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and c...
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Mills, Charles W., author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race / Charles W. Mills. Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2015] ©2015 1 online resource (272 p.) : 3 diagrams text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1.Non-Cartesian Sums -- 2.Alternative Epistemologies -- 3."But What Are You Really?" -- 4.Dark Ontologies -- 5.Revisionist Ontologies -- 6.The Racial Polity -- 7.White Right -- 8. Whose Fourth Of July? -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination.European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention.Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape.His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022) African American philosophy. African Americans Race identity. Afrocentrism. Racism United States Philosophy. Discrimination & Race Relations. History. Philosophy. PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory. bisacsh Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000 9783110536171 print 9780801484711 https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501702952 https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781501702952 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781501702952/original |
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