Racism in Mind / / ed. by Michael P. Levine, Tamas Pataki.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Altman, Neil,; Blum, Lawrence,; Boxill, Bernard,; Dummett, Michael,; Garcia, J. L.A.,; Haslanger, Sally,; La Caze, Marguerite,; Lengbeyer, Lawrence A.,; Levine, Michael P.,; Pataki, Tamas,; Thomas, Laurence,; Tiemann, Johanna,; Willett, Cynthia,; Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth,
• HerausgeberIn: Levine, Michael P.,; Pataki, Tamas,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (320 p.)

This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings together some of the most influential analytic philosophers writing on racism today. The introduction by Tamas Pataki outlines the historical and thematic development of conceptions of race and racism, and locates the following essays against the backdrop of contemporary reactions to that development. While the framework is primarily analytic, the volume also includes essays deeply informed by psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist and social theory. The fourteen chapters in this collection address three interrelated questions: What is racism? What are the causes of racism? And what are the moral and political implications of racism? Although their approaches are wide ranging, the contributors to Racism in Mind broadly endorse a psychological-characterological approach to the understanding of many aspects of racism.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I. What Is Racism? -- 1. The Nature of Racism -- 2. Three Sites for Racism: Social Structures, Valuings, and Vice -- 3. What Do Accounts of"Racism" Do? -- 4. Philosophy and Racism -- 5. Oppressions: Racial and Other -- Part II. The Psychology Of Racism -- 6. Racism as Manic Defense -- 7. The Characters of Violence and Prejudice -- 8. Racism and Impure Hearts -- 9. Psychoanalysis, Racism, and Envy -- Part III. Racism, Morality, Politics -- 10. Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race -- 11. Upside-down Equality: A Response to Kantian Thought -- 12. The Social Element: A Phenomenology of Racialized Space and the Limits of Liberalism -- 13. If You Say So: Feminist Philosophy and Antiracism -- References -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index