Description
For many decades, race and racism have been common areas of study in departments of sociology, history, political science, English, and anthropology. Much more recently, as the historical concept of race and racial categories have faced significant scientific and political challenges, philosophers have become more interested in these areas. This changing understanding of the ontology of race has invited inquiry from researchers in moral philosophy, metaphysics, epistemology, philosophy of science, philosophy of language, and aesthetics.
The Routledge Companion to Philosophy of Race offers in one comprehensive volume newly written articles on race from the world’s leading analytic and continental philosophers. It is, however, accessible to a readership beyond philosophy as well, providing a cohesive reference for a wide student and academic readership. The Companion synthesizes current philosophical understandings of race, providing 37 chapters on the history of philosophy and race as well as how race might be investigated in the usual frameworks of contemporary philosophy. The volume concludes with a section on philosophical approaches to some topics with broad interest outside of philosophy, like colonialism, affirmative action, eugenics, immigration, race and disability, and post-racialism.
By clearly explaining and carefully organizing the leading current philosophical thinking on race, this timely collection will help define the subject and bring renewed understanding of race to students and researchers in the humanities, social science, and sciences.
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
History and the Canon
- Critical Philosophy of Race and Philosophical Historiography
- Of Problem Moderns and Excluded Moderns: On the Essential Hybridity of Modernity
- Kant on Race and Transition
- Hegel on Race and Development
- Heidegger’s Shadow: Levinas, Arendt, and the Magician from Messkirch
- Race-ing the Canon: American Icons, from Thomas Jefferson to Alain Locke
- At the Intersections: Existentialism, Critical Philosophies of Race, and Feminism
- Critical Theory: Adorno, Marcuse, and Angela Davis
- Poststructuralism and Race: Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault
- Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy
- Africana Thought
- Theorizing Indigeneity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism
- The History of Racial Theories in China
- Racism in India
- Analytic Metaphysics: Race and Racial Identity
- American Experimentalism
- Race and Phenomenology (or Racializing Phenomenology)
- Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance
- Implicit Bias and Race
- The Mark of the Plural: Generic Generalizations and Race
- Psychoanalysis and Race
- Race and Biology
- Eugenics
- Framing Intersectionality
- Canonizing the Critical Race Artifice: An Analysis of Philosophy’s Gentrification of Critical Race Theory
- Race-ing Aesthetic Theory
- Joking About Race and Ethnicity
- Anti-Black Racism: The Greatest Art Show on Earth
- Racism
- On Race and Solidarity: Reconsiderations
- Race, Luck, and the Moral Emotions
- Racism and Coloniality: The Invention of "Human(ity)" and the Three Pillars of the Colonial Matrix of Power (Racism, Sexism And Nature)
- White Supremacy
- On Post-Racialism: Or, How Color-Blindness Rebranded Is Still Vicious
- Philosophy of Race and the Ethics of Immigration
- Mixed-Race
- Racism, State Violence, and the Homeland
Robert Bernasconi
Oluìfeìòmi TaìiìwoÌ
Frank Kirkland
Frank Kirkland
Jonathan Judaken
Jacoby Carter
Kathryn Gines
Arnold Farr
Ladelle McWhorter
Alternative Traditions
Chike Jeffers
Lewis Gordon
Kyle Whyte and Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner
Frank Dikötter
Ania Loomba
Metaphysics and Ontology
Jorge J. E. Gracia and Susan L. Smith
Harvey Cormier
Gail Weiss
Epistemology, Cognition, and Language
José Medina
Michael Brownstein
Daniel Wodak and Sarah-Jane Leslie
Kelly Oliver
Natural Science and Social Theory
Rasmus Winther
Camisha Russell
Elena Ruiz
Tommy Curry
Aesthetics
Monique Roelofs
Stephanie Patridge
Janine Jones
Ethics and the Political
Luc Faucher
Lucius Outlaw
Samantha Vice
Walter Mignolo
Charles Mills
Politics and Policy
Ronald Sundstrom
Jose Jorge Mendoza
Jared Sexton
Falguni Sheth
