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On Race and Racism in America:

Confessions in Philosophy
  • ISBN-13: 9780271036403
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • Edited by Roy Martinez
  • Price: AUD $64.99
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  • Local release date: 11/03/2010
  • Format: Paperback 192 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Cultural studies [JFC]
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Essays by eight philosophers, working in the Continental and American pragmatist philosophical traditions, that address the issue of race, its social construction and myth, and the problems it raises on a daily basis.


Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Roy Martinez

Part One

1. Virtually Invisible: On Seeing in the Dark

John D. Caputo

2. Personal Reflections on Racism in America

Joseph Margolis

3. The Dangers of Confession: White Contributions to a Continental Philosophy of Race

Shannon Sullivan

4. Racism and Biopower

Ladelle McWhorter

Part Two

5. Social Minimalism in a Liberal Culture and the Problem of Racial Hubris

Cynthia Willett

6. Theorizing Difference: Phenomenology Versus Post-structuralism

David Couzens Hoy

7. Continental Philosophy and the Concept of Race

Georgia Warnke

8. Philosophy in Chains

John Ladd

List of Contributors

Index

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