The Routledge Companion to the Philosophy of Race

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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. Cover Title Copyright Contents list of Illustrations Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Part I History and the Canon 1 Critical Philosophy of Race and Philosophical Historiography 2 Of Problem Moderns and Excluded Moderns: On the Essential Hybridity of Modernity 3 Kant on Race and Transition 4 Hegel on Race and Development 5 Heidegger’s Shadow: Levinas, Arendt, and the Magician From Messkirch 6 Race-ing the Canon: American Icons, From Thomas Jefferson to Alain Locke 7 At the Intersections: Existentialism, Critical Philosophies of Race, and Feminism 8 Critical Theory: Adorno, Marcuse, and Angela Davis 9 Post-structuralism and Race: Giorgio Agamben and Michel Foucault Part II Alternative Traditions 10 Rights, Race, and the Beginnings of Modern Africana Philosophy 11 Africana Thought 12 Theorizing Indigeneity, Gender, and Settler Colonialism 13 The History of Racial Theories in China 14 Racism in India Part III Metaphysics and Ontology 15 Analytic Metaphysics: Race and Racial Identity 16 American Experimentalism 17 Phenomenology and Race (or Racializing Phenomenology) Part IV Epistemology, Cognition, and Language 18 Epistemic Injustice and Epistemologies of Ignorance 19 Implicit Bias and Race 20 The Mark of the Plural: Generic Generalizations and Race 21 Psychoanalysis and Race Part V Natural Science and Social Theory 22 Race and Biology 23 Eugenics 24 Framing Intersectionality 25 Canonizing the Critical Race Artifice: An Analysis of Philosophy’s Gentrification of Critical Race Theory Part VI Aesthetics 26 Race-ing Aesthetic Theory 27 Joking About Race and Ethnicity 28 Anti-black Racism: The Greatest Art Show on Earth Part VII Ethics and the Political 29 Racism 30 On Race and Solidarity: Reconsiderations 31 Race, Luck, and the Moral Emotions 32 Racism and Coloniality: The Invention of “HUMAN(ITY)” and the Three Pillars of the Colonial Matrix of Power (Racism, Sexism, and Nature) 33 White Supremacy Part VIII Politics and Policy 34 On Post-racialism: Or, How Color-Blindness Rebranded Is Still Vicious 35 Philosophy of Race and the Ethics of Immigration 36 Mixed-Race 37 Racism, State Violence, and the Homeland Index