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  • Moving beyond monoracial categories

    Moving beyond monoracial categories The Daily: of the University of Washington 2015-01-25 Emily Muirhead I once had a professor claim that in 50 years, everyone will be so racially “mixed” and therefore ambiguous, no one will be able to distinguish “what someone is,” so race won’t matter much anymore. As a biracial individual who has…

  • Black and Blue and Blond

    Where does race fit in the construction of modern identity?

  • White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope

    White Anxiety and the Futility of Black Hope The New York Times 2014-12-05 George Yancy, Professor of Philosophy Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Shannon Sullivan, Professor of Philosophy University of North Carolina, Charlotte This is the third in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation…

  • What ‘White Privilege’ Really Means

    This is the first in a series of interviews with philosophers on race that I am conducting for The Stone. This week’s conversation is with Naomi Zack, a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon and the author of “The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy.” The interview was…

  • Philosophy of Science and Race

    Philosophy of Science and Race Routledge 2002-09-20 152 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-94164-8 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-415-94163-1 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Contents Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction: Reason and Method 1. Philosophical Racial Essentialism: Hume and Kant 2. Geography and Ideas of Race 3. Phenotypes and Ideas of Race 4. Transmisson Genetics and Ideas…

  • The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy

    The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield July 2011 216 pages Size: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4422-1125-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4422-1127-8 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an…

  • The Politics of Multi-Racial Identity

    The Politics of Multi-Racial Identity Mixed Roots Stories 2014-07-23 Marley-Vincent Lindsey, Guest Blogger Race-thinking has two distinct aspects: the real, and the conceptual. Both of these are important in the development of the racial politics of identity. These politics surround both what we know to be true about race (the real) and what we are…

  • The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available

    The Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies inaugural issue is now available Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies Volume 1, Number 1 (2014-01-30) ISSN: 2325-4521 Laura Kina, Associate Professor Art, Media and Design and Director Asian American Studies DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois G. Reginald Daniel, Professor of Sociology University of California at Santa Barbaral Saya…

  • The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere)

    The Stuart Hall Project (Washington premiere) The National Gallery of Art East Building Auditorium Between 3rd and 9th Streets, N.W. along Constitution Avenue N.W. Washington, D.C. 2014-01-19, 16:30 EST (Local Time) The celebrated Jamaican-born sociologist and theorist Stuart Hall (b. 1932) is the founding father of cultural studies — the popular interdisciplinary field that has…

  • The concept of socialrace

    The concept of socialrace Philosophy Social Criticism Volume 40, Number 1 (January 2014) pages 69-90 DOI: 10.1177/0191453713498252 Michael O. Hardimon Department of Philosophy University of California, San Diego Explication of the concept of socialrace: the concept variously refers to (1) a social group that is taken to be a racialist race, (2) the social position…