- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Ideas of Race in the History of Modern Philosophy
- John Locke, Racism, Slavery, and Indian Lands
- David Hume on Race
- Kantian Racism and Kantian Teleology
- Nietzsche as a Philosopher of Racialized Breeding
- Philosophy and the Racial Contract
- Part II Pluralistic Ideas of Race
- “Race” in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Discourse by Africans in the Diaspora
- Indigeneity and US Settler Colonialism
- A Critical Transnational Perspective to Asian America
- Rights and Identity in Latin American Philosophy
- Looking for Alain Locke
- Part III Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
- Race, Definition, and Science
- Minimalist Biological Race
- Biological Anthropology, Population Genetics, and Race
- A Metatheory of Race
- Race and Ethnicity
- Part IV American Philosophy and Ideas of Race
- Between Reconstruction and Elimination: Alain Locke’s Philosophy of Race
- Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity
- Cornel West, American Pragmatism, and the Post-Obama Racial/Social Dynamics
- Insurrectionist Ethics and Racism
- History of African American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory
- Part V Continental Philosophy and Race
- Hegel, History, and Race
- Exploring the Matter of Race: A Materialist Philosophical Inquiry
- Race and Existentialism: The Dialectic from Mailer’s “The White Negro” to Memmi’s Racism
- From Scientific Racism to Neoliberal Biopolitics: Using Foucault’s Toolkit
- Phenomenology and Race
- Part VI Racisms and Neo-Racisms
- The Quartet in the Political Persona of Ida B. Wells
- To Be Black, Excess, and Nonrecyclable
- White Privilege
- The Racialization of Muslims in the Post-9/11 United States
- State Racism, State Violence, and Vulnerable Solidarity
- Part VII Social Construction and Racial Identities
- Black American Social Identity and Its Blackness
- How Mixed Race Is Not Constructed: US Identities and Perspectives
- Racial Identity, Racial Ontology, and Racial Norms
- Is It Moral to Hold a Racial Identity?: A Cosmopolitan Response
- Effortful Agon: Learning to Think and Feel Differently about Race
- Part VIII Contemporary Social Issues
- Racial Profiling and the Political Philosophy of Race
- Race and K-12 Education
- Race, Health Disparities, Incarceration, and Structural Inequality
- Race in the Biomedical Sciences
- Intelligence, Race, and Psychological Testing
- “Race” to the Finish Line: African Americans, Sports, and the “Color-Line”
- Part IX Public Policy, Political Philosophy, and Law
- Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow: Its Assumptions and Implications
- Race, Rectification, and Apology
- The Concept of Race and Equal Protection Law
- Affirmative Action for the Future
- Ideal, Nonideal, and Empirical Theories of Social Justice: The Need for Applicative Justice in Addressing Injustice
- Part X Feminism, Gender, and Race
- Ethnological Theories of Race/Sex in Nineteenth-Century Black Thought: Implications for the Race/Gender Debate of the Twenty-First Century
- Jefferson’s Paradox, or a Very Brief History of Black Women’s Sexuality, Hip-Hop, and American Culture
- The Violent Weight of Whiteness: The Existential and Psychic Price Paid by Black Male Bodies
- Gender Theory in Philosophy of Race
- The Sting of Shame: Ridicule, Rape, and Social Bonds
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
Recent violent racial events in the United States, starting with the killing in Florida of Travon Martin by a white “crime vigilante” George Zimmerman, and followed in Fergusson, Missouri, by the killing of nineteen-year-old Michael Brown, by a white police officer, have provoked critical discussions about the issue of racial violence against young black males in US society. As a major crisis for black America, such killings have motivated cries about injustice from all quarters of society concerned with advancing social and racial justice. But while such calls have been made and outrage expressed in certain news outlets and by social activists “in the field” such as Black Lives Matter, there seems to have been an inaudible response from Cornel West, or one in which West deploys his theory of prophetic pragmatism as he does to certain issues he examines in Race Matters.
Keywords: Cornel West, black men, post-Obama existential threat, extrajudicial killings, racial/social dynamics
Clarence Sholé Johnson is Professor of Philosophy at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He is the author of Cornel West and Philosophy (Routledge, 2002) and has published articles in major scholarly journals such as The Journal of Social Philosophy, Social Philosophy Today, The Journal of Philosophical Research, DIALOGUE: Canadian Philosophical Review, Metaphilosophy, and The Southern Journal of Philosophy. He has also contributed chapters to a number of books and entries in encyclopedias.
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- The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race
- List of Contributors
- Introduction
- Part I Ideas of Race in the History of Modern Philosophy
- John Locke, Racism, Slavery, and Indian Lands
- David Hume on Race
- Kantian Racism and Kantian Teleology
- Nietzsche as a Philosopher of Racialized Breeding
- Philosophy and the Racial Contract
- Part II Pluralistic Ideas of Race
- “Race” in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Discourse by Africans in the Diaspora
- Indigeneity and US Settler Colonialism
- A Critical Transnational Perspective to Asian America
- Rights and Identity in Latin American Philosophy
- Looking for Alain Locke
- Part III Metaphysics and Philosophy of Science
- Race, Definition, and Science
- Minimalist Biological Race
- Biological Anthropology, Population Genetics, and Race
- A Metatheory of Race
- Race and Ethnicity
- Part IV American Philosophy and Ideas of Race
- Between Reconstruction and Elimination: Alain Locke’s Philosophy of Race
- Du Bois, Appiah, and Outlaw on Racial Identity
- Cornel West, American Pragmatism, and the Post-Obama Racial/Social Dynamics
- Insurrectionist Ethics and Racism
- History of African American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory
- Part V Continental Philosophy and Race
- Hegel, History, and Race
- Exploring the Matter of Race: A Materialist Philosophical Inquiry
- Race and Existentialism: The Dialectic from Mailer’s “The White Negro” to Memmi’s Racism
- From Scientific Racism to Neoliberal Biopolitics: Using Foucault’s Toolkit
- Phenomenology and Race
- Part VI Racisms and Neo-Racisms
- The Quartet in the Political Persona of Ida B. Wells
- To Be Black, Excess, and Nonrecyclable
- White Privilege
- The Racialization of Muslims in the Post-9/11 United States
- State Racism, State Violence, and Vulnerable Solidarity
- Part VII Social Construction and Racial Identities
- Black American Social Identity and Its Blackness
- How Mixed Race Is Not Constructed: US Identities and Perspectives
- Racial Identity, Racial Ontology, and Racial Norms
- Is It Moral to Hold a Racial Identity?: A Cosmopolitan Response
- Effortful Agon: Learning to Think and Feel Differently about Race
- Part VIII Contemporary Social Issues
- Racial Profiling and the Political Philosophy of Race
- Race and K-12 Education
- Race, Health Disparities, Incarceration, and Structural Inequality
- Race in the Biomedical Sciences
- Intelligence, Race, and Psychological Testing
- “Race” to the Finish Line: African Americans, Sports, and the “Color-Line”
- Part IX Public Policy, Political Philosophy, and Law
- Reparations for Slavery and Jim Crow: Its Assumptions and Implications
- Race, Rectification, and Apology
- The Concept of Race and Equal Protection Law
- Affirmative Action for the Future
- Ideal, Nonideal, and Empirical Theories of Social Justice: The Need for Applicative Justice in Addressing Injustice
- Part X Feminism, Gender, and Race
- Ethnological Theories of Race/Sex in Nineteenth-Century Black Thought: Implications for the Race/Gender Debate of the Twenty-First Century
- Jefferson’s Paradox, or a Very Brief History of Black Women’s Sexuality, Hip-Hop, and American Culture
- The Violent Weight of Whiteness: The Existential and Psychic Price Paid by Black Male Bodies
- Gender Theory in Philosophy of Race
- The Sting of Shame: Ridicule, Rape, and Social Bonds
- Index
