Full Description
Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience is a collection of essays by philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher's best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher's mixed race experience on the philosopher's work, or (3) the philosopher's philosophical take on the mixed race experience. The book has two primary goals: (1) to collect together for the first time the work of professional, academic philosophers who have had the mixed race experience, and (2) to bring these essays together for the purpose of adding to the conversation on the question of the degree to which factical identity and philosophical work may be related. The book also examines the possible relationship between the mixed race experience and certain philosophical positions.
Contents
Foreword, by Linda Martín Alcoff
Editor's Introduction: Toward a Mixed Race Theory, by Tina Fernandes Botts
Part 1: Mixed Race Political Theory
Chapter 1: Responsible Multiracial Politics, with a new postscript, by Ronald Robles Sundstrom
Chapter 2: Mixed Race Identity in Britain: Finding Our Roots in the Post Racial Era, by Gabriella Beckles-Raymond
Part 2: Mixed Race Metaphilosophy
Chapter 3: Through the Looking Glass: What Philosophy Looks Like from the Inside When You're Not Quite There, by Marina Oshana
Chapter 4: Being and Not Being, Knowing and Not Knowing, by Jennifer Lisa Vest
Chapter 5: A Mixed Race (Philosophical) Experience, by Tina Fernandes Botts
Part 3: Mixed Race Ontology
Chapter 6: The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race, by Naomi Zack
Chapter 7: On Being Mixed, by Linda Martín Alcoff
Chapter 8: Race and Ethnic Identity, by J.L.A. Garcia
Part 4: Mixed Race and Major Figures
Chapter 9: Through a Glass, Darkly: A Mixed-Race Du Bois, by Celena Simpson
Chapter 10: German Chocolate: Why Philosophy is So Personal, by Timothy J. Golden
Part 5: Mixed Race Ethics
Chapter 11: Who is Afraid of Racial and Ethnic Self-Cleansing? In Defense of the Virtuous Cosmopolitan, by Jason D. Hill
Afterword, by Naomi Zack
Epilogue, by Tina Fernandes Botts
