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  • Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept

    Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process: Race as a Border Concept Research in Phenomenology Volume 42, Issue 2 (2012) pages 206-228 DOI: 10.1163/156916412X651201 Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University The phenomenological approach to racialization needs to be supplemented by a hermeneutics that examines the history of…

  • Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of ‘Race’

    Invitation to a Dialogue: The Myth of ‘Race’ The New York Times 2013-07-15 John L. Hodge, Retired lawyer, Former Professor of Philosophy and Author Boston To the Editor: What should we do about “race”? Over many decades, those who study genetics have found no biological evidence to support the idea that humans consist of different…

  • Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century

    Beyond Blood Identities: Posthumanity in the Twenty-First Century Lexington Books: an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield October 2009 262 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3842-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-3843-4 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-3844-1 Jason D. Hill, Professor of Philosophy DePaul University Beyond Blood Identities uncovers the social psychology of those who hold strong blood…

  • Of Racism and Remembrance

    Of Racism and Remembrance Common-Place A Common Place, an Uncommon Voice Volume 1, Number 4, July 2001 Aaron Garrett, Associate Professor of Philosophy Boston University Is interest in the racism of past and hallowed philosophers and statesmen the obsession of a politically correct society gone amok? Or is it an acknowledgement of the ways in…

  • The United States of Mestizo

    The United States of Mestizo John F. Blair, Publisher 2013-01-01 48 pages 4¼ x 5½ 978-1-58838-288-7 ebook ISBN: 978-1-60306-200-8 Ilan Stavans, Lewis-Sebring Professor in Latin American and Latino Culture Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts This powerful manifesto attests to the fundamental changes the nation has undergone in the last half-century. Ilan Stavans meditates on the way…

  • Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940

    Foreign Bodies: Oceania and the Science of Race 1750–1940 Australian National University Press October 2008 372 pages Paperback ISBN-10: 1921313994; ISBN-13: 978-1921313998 Online ISBN: 9781921536007 Edited by: Bronwen Douglas, Senior Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University Chris Ballard, Fellow in Pacific and Asian History The Australian National University From the 18th…

  • Race: The History of an Idea in the West

    Race: The History of an Idea in the West Johns Hopkins University Press May 1996 464 pages Paperback (on-demand) ISBN: 9780801852237 Ivan Hannaford In Race: The History of an Idea in the West Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it,…

  • Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition)

    Racial Theories in Context (Second Edition) Cognella 2013 224 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-60927-056-8 Edited by: Jared Sexton, Associate Professor of African American Studies and Film & Media Studies University of California, Irvine This book presents a critical framework for understanding how and why race matters — past, present, and future. The readings trace the historical…

  • Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy

    Race and Ethnic Relations in the Twenty-First Century: History, Theory, Institutions, and Policy Cognella 2011 436 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-1-93555-160-7 Edited by: Rashawn Ray, Assistant Professor of Sociology University of Maryland, College Park This book examines the major theoretical and empirical approaches regarding race/ethnicity. Its goal is to continue to place race and ethnic relations…

  • Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line

    Against Race: Imagining Political Culture beyond the Color Line Belknap Press (an imprint of Harvard University Press) January 2002 416 pages 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches 1 halftone Paperback ISBN: 9780674006690 Paul Gilroy, Anthony Giddens Professor of Social Theory London School of Economics After all the “progress” made since World War II in matters pertaining to…