The Philosophy of Race, (4 Volume Set)

Since at least the early 1990s, philosophical race theory has emerged as a dynamic and fertile area of serious scholarly inquiry, and this new four-volume Major Work from Routledge meets the need for a comprehensive collection to facilitate ready access to the most influential and important foundational and cutting-edge scholarship.

Volume I (‘Philosophy and the History of Race, Race in the History of Philosophy’) brings together the key texts to have shaped the most widely recognized forms of ‘race thinking’. The second and third volumes in the collection, meanwhile, explore the questions that race raises in philosophy’s traditional subfields. Volume II (‘Racial Being and Knowing’) gathers the best and most influential work to unravel the implications of racial practices for metaphysics, ontology, and epistemology. And Volume III (‘Race-ing Beauty, Goodness, and Right’) collects the key scholarship to deal with the consequences of racial practices for aesthetics, ethics, and politics.

The final volume in the collection (‘Intersections and Positions’) assembles the most important work to grapple with the methodological and geographical complications that accompany a commitment to racialism. (Race is an inherently contextual phenomenon and some of the material gathered in this volume - in particular, that exploring racialization in Japan, Brazil, and Norway - provides a refreshing counterweight to the philosophical zeal for abstraction.)

The Philosophy of Race is edited by Paul C. Taylor, a leading scholar in the field. The collection is fully indexed and has a comprehensive introduction, newly written by the editor, which places the material in its intellectual and historic context. It is an essential work of reference and is destined to be valued by scholars and students as a vital one-stop research resource.

Volume I : History

Part 1 : Philosophical Historiography
Chapter 1 : A Genealogy of Modern Racism’, Prophesy Deliverance! Towards an Afro-American Revolutionary Christianity
Chapter 2 : Race, Culture, History
Chapter 3 : The End(s) of Race’, Postcolonial Studies

Part 2 : Early Figures and Moments
Chapter 4 : Philosophy and Racism’, Philosophia
Chapter 5 : Hume’s Racism Reconsidered’, The Third Force in Seventeenth-Century Thought
Chapter 6 : "The Effects of Blackness" : Gender, Race, and The Sublime in AesThetic Theories of Burke and Kant’, Journal of AesThetics and Art Criticism
Chapter 7 : Kant and Race, Race and Racism
Chapter 8 : On The Limit of Spirit : Hegel’s Racism Revisited’, Philosophy & Social Criticism
Chapter 9 : Marx, Capitalism, and Race, Democracy, Racism, and Prisons

Part 3 : Late Modern Race Theory in/and The Canon
Chapter 10 : Heidegger and The Jewish Question : Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word, Philosophers on Race : Critical Essays
Chapter 11 : Race Thinking and Racism in Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism, Imperialism, Slavery, Race, and Genocide : The Legacy of Hannah Arendt
Chapter 12 : Sartre on Racism : From Existential Phenomenology to Globalization and "The New Racism"’, Race After Sartre

Part 4 : Critical Race Theory and The New Canon
Chapter 13 : Race and Political Theory : Lessons from Latin America, Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity
Chapter 14 : Douglass on Racial Assimilation and Racial Institutions, Frederick Douglass : A Critical Reader
Chapter 15 : Another Pragmatism : Alain Locke, Critical "Race" Theory, and The Politics of Culture, The Revival of Pragmatism
Chapter 16 : Thinking from The Margins, Acting at The Intersections : Anna Julia Cooper’s A Voice from The South
Chapter 17 : The Uncompleted Argument : DuBois and The Illusion of Race
Chapter 18 : Dusk of Dawn : An Essay Toward an Autobiography of a Race Concept
Chapter 19 : The Lived Experience of The Black’, Black Skin, White Masks
Chapter 20 : Racism, Colonialism, and Anonymity : Social Theory and Embodied Agency’, Fanon and The Crisis of European Man : A Essay on Philosophy and The Human Sciences

Volume II : Racial Being and Knowing

Part 5 : What Races Are, What ‘Race’ Means
Chapter 21 : "But What Are You Really?" The Metaphysics of Race’, Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race
Chapter 22 : Conserve Races? In Defense of W. E. B. Du Bois’, Critical Social Theory in The Interests of Black Folks
Chapter 23 : Passing, Traveling, and Reality : Social Construction and The Metaphysics of Race
Chapter 24 : A New Perspective on The Race Debate’, British Journal for The Philosophy of Science
Chapter 25 : Does "Race" have a Future?’, Philosophy and Public Affairs
Chapter 26 : David Theo Goldberg, Racist Culture
Chapter 27 : Language, Politics and "The Folk" : Looking for "The Meaning" of "Race"’, The Monist
Chapter 28 : The Ordinary Conception of Race in The United States and its Relation to Racial Attitudes : A New Approach’, Journal of Cognition and Culture

Part 6 : What Racial Identities Are
Chapter 29 : Philosophy and Racial Identity’, Philosophy Today
Chapter 30 : SynThesis : For Racial Identities’, Color Conscious
Chapter 31 : Passing, Queering : Nella Larsen’s Psychoanalytic Challenge’, Bodies That Matter
Chapter 32 : Race : A Philosophical Introduction

Part 7 : Power, Knowledge, Self-Knowledge, and Experience
Chapter 33 : White Ignorance, Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
Chapter 34 : Race and Feminist Standpoint Theory’, in Kathryn Gines, Donna Dale-Marcano, and Maria del Guadelupe Davidson, Convergences : Black Feminism and Continental Philosophy
Chapter 35 : Ignorance and Habit’, Revealing Whiteness
Chapter 36 : How Heritability Misleads About Race’, Boston Review
Chapter 37 : The Problem of Race in Medicine’, Philosophy of The Social Sciences
Chapter 38 : Race and Place : Social Space in The Production of Human Kinds’, Philosophy and Geography

Volume III : Race-ing Beauty, Goodness, and Right

Part 8 : Racism
Chapter 39 : Racisms, Anatomy of Racism
Chapter 40 : Racialism, Racism, Racialists, Racists’, Bad Faith and Anti-Black Racism
Chapter 41 : The Heart of Racism’, Journal of Social Philosophy
Chapter 42 : Is Racism in The Heart?’, Journal of Social Philosophy
Chapter 43 : Racism : Against Jorge Garcia’s Moral and Psychological Monism’, Philosophy of The Social Sciences
Chapter 44 : The Policing of Race Mixing : The Place of Biopower within The History of Racisms’, Journal of Bioethical Inquiry

Part 9 : Race, The Right, and The Good
Chapter 45 : The Racial Contract
Chapter 46 : Races as Families’, Journal of Social Philosophy
Chapter 47 : Three Kinds of Race-Related Solidarity’, Journal of Social Philosophy
Chapter 48 : Latino/as, Asian Americans, and The Black-White Binary’, Journal of Ethics
Chapter 49 : Psychological Violence, Physical Violence, and Racial Oppression, Existence in Black : An Anthology of Black Existential Philosophy
Chapter 50 : How Do I Live in This Strange Place?’, Journal of Social Philosophy

Part 10 : Selected Issues in Racial Politics
Chapter 51 : Preferential Treatment, Color-Blindness, and The Evils of Racism and Racial Discrimination’, Proceedings and Addresses of The American Philosophical Association
Chapter 52 : Achieving Democratic Equality : Forgiveness, Reconciliation, and Reparations’, Journal of Ethics
Chapter 53 : Racialized Punishment and Prison Abolition, A Companion to African-American Philosophy
Chapter 54 : Subjects of Empire : Indigenous Peoples and The "Politics of Recognition"’, Contemporary Political Theory

Part 11 : AesThetics
Chapter 55 : Racialization as an AesThetic Production : What Does The AesThetic Do for Whiteness and Blackness and Vice Versa?, White on White/Black on Black
Chapter 56 : Spike Lee and The SympaThetic Racist’, Journal of AesThetics and Art Criticism
Chapter 57 : Othering The Other : The Spectacle of Katrina for our Racial Entertainment Pleasure’, Contemporary AesThetics
Chapter 58 : AesThetics and Receptivity : Kant, Nietzsche, Cavell, Astaire’, Look, a Negro! Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture and Politics
Chapter 59 : The Hijab and The Sari : The Strange and The Sexy Between Colonialism and Global Capitalism’, Contemporary AesThetics

Volume IV : Intersections and Positions

Part 12 : Intersectionality
Chapter 60 : Intersectionality, Citizenship and Contemporary Politics of Belonging’, Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy
Chapter 61 : It’s All in The Family : Intersections of Gender, Race, and Nation’, Hypatia
Chapter 62 : The Nature of Ethnicity with Special Reference to Hispanic/Latino Identity’, Public Affairs Quarterly
Chapter 63 : Sex, Race, and Biopower : A Foucauldian Genealogy’, Hypatia
Chapter 64 : Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance’, Sociological Theories : Race and Colonialism
Chapter 65 : Uprisings in The Banlieues’, Constellations : An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory

Part 13 : Mapping Racial Imaginaries : Inventing The OTher
Chapter 66 : Introduction to Orientalism, The Edward Said Reader
Chapter 67 : Orientalism and America Enlarged’, Newsletter on Asian and Asian-American Philosophers and Philosophies
Chapter 68 : Discourse of Power and Knowledge of OTherness’, The Invention of Africa
Chapter 69 : When Victims Become Killers
Chapter 70 : Racial Europeanization’, Ethnic & Racial Studies
Chapter 71 : Racial Palestinianization and The Janus-Faced Nature of The Israeli State’, Patterns of Prejudice

Part 14 : Positioning Critical Identities : Inventing Self and Community
Chapter 72 : In What Sense are Dalits Black?’ (presentation to ‘Beyond The White - Black Binary
Chapter 73 : Mestizo Identity, American Mixed Race : The Culture of Microdiversity