Racism and Philosophy

Susan E. Babbitt; Sue Campbell

Published by Cornell University Press 1999

Racism and Philosophy

Susan E. Babbitt and Sue Campbell

https://doi.org/10.7591/9781501720710

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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...

Author / Editor information

Susan E. Babbitt is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Development Studies, and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and author of Artless Integrity: Moral Imagination, Reasons, and Stories and Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity and Moral Imagination. Sue Campbell was Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Gender and Women's Studies at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and author of Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings, also from Cornell.

Reviews

Raz Yaqoob, South Bank University:

This is a book to relish, not because the diverse essays are in placid agreement, but because they support and provoke a sense of hope and a rethinking of concepts and social boundaries from different angles.... This collection's contribution lies in its academic depth, its focus on the ordinary and commitments to debate the complexities of being human in relation to institutions and meanings that are racially inscribed.... I feel that philosophers, inquiring minds and academic minds will find this collection thought provoking and useful.

Michele M. Moody-Adams, Indiana University:

The essays in this volume bring careful philosophical argument to bear on matters of contemporary concern; together they provide an approach to the topic of racism and philosophy unavailable elsewhere.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Publicly Available Download PDF	vii
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
l. RACISM AND THE PRACTICE OF PHILOSOPHY
1. The Racial Polity Charles W.Mills Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	13
2. Fanon, Philosophy, and Racism Lewis R.Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	32
3. On Race and Philosophy Lucius T.Outlaw Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	50
II. RACISM: PARADIGMS AND PERSPECTIVES
4. Moral Asymmetries in Racism Lawrence Blum Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	79
5. Racism: Paradigms and Moral Appraisal (A Response to Blum) Marilyn Friedman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
6. Contempt and Ordinary Inequality David Haekwon Kim Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
7. Colonial Racism: Sweeping Out Africa with Mother Europe’s Broom Nkiru Nzegwu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	124
8. Reading the Colonizer’s Mind: Lord Lugard and the Philosophical Foundations of British Colonialism Olufemi Taiwo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	157
III. MORALITY, IDENTITIES, AND “RACE”
9. Split-Level Equality: Mixing Love and Equality Laurence M.Thomas Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	189
10. “Race” and the Labor of Identity Elizabeth V.Spelman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	202
11. Dominant Identities and Settled Expectations Sue Campbell Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	216
12. Moral Risk and Dark Waters Susan E.Babbitt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	235
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	255
Bibliography Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	277
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	289
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291

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Language: English
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 304
Illustrations
- Other: 1 drawing
Keywords: Discrimination & Race Relations; Philosophy; Philosophy & Religion

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Published: October 18, 2018
ISBN: 9781501720710