Racism and Philosophy / / Sue Campbell, Susan E. Babbitt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Archive Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Babbitt, Susan E.,; Campbell, Sue,
• MitwirkendeR: Blum, Lawrence,; Campbell, Sue,; E.Babbitt, Susan,; Friedman, Marilyn,; Haekwon Kim, David,; M.Thomas, Laurence,; Nzegwu, Nkiru,; R.Gordon, Lewis,; T.Outlaw, Lucius,; Taiwo, Olufemi,; V.Spelman, Elizabeth,; W.Mills, Charles,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©1999
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 1 drawing

By definitively establishing that racism has broad implications for how the entire field of philosophy is practiced—and by whom—this powerful and convincing book puts all members of the discipline on notice that racism concerns them. It simultaneously demonstrates to race theorists the significance of philosophy for their work.A distinguished cast of authors takes a stand on the importance of race, focusing on the insights that analyses of race and racism can make to philosophy—not just to ethics and political philosophy but also to the more abstract debates of metaphysics, philosophy of mind, and epistemology. Contemporary philosophy, the authors argue, continues to evade racism and, as a result, often helps to promote it. At the same time, anti-racist theorists in many disciplines regularly draw on crucial notions of objectivity, rationality, agency, individualism, and truth without adequate knowledge of philosophical analyses of these very concepts. Racism and Philosophy demonstrates the impossibility of talking thoughtfully about race without recourse to philosophy. Written to engage readers with a wide variety of interests, this is an essential book for all theorists of race and for all philosophers.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- l. RACISM AND THE PRACTICE OF PHILOSOPHY -- 1. The Racial Polity -- 2. Fanon, Philosophy, and Racism -- 3. On Race and Philosophy -- II. RACISM: PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES -- 4. Moral Asymmetries in Racism -- 5. Racism: Paradigms and Moral Appraisal (A Response to Blum) -- 6. Contempt and Ordinary Inequality -- 7. Colonial Racism: Sweeping Out Africa with Mother Europe’s Broom -- 8. Reading the Colonizer’s Mind: Lord Lugard and the Philosophical Foundations of British Colonialism -- III. MORALITY, IDENTITIES, AND “RACE” -- 9. Split-Level Equality: Mixing Love and Equality -- 10. “Race” and the Labor of Identity -- 11. Dominant Identities and Settled Expectations -- 12. Moral Risk and Dark Waters -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index