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  • Man’s Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Sixth Edition)

    “Man’s Most Dangerous Myth” was first published in 1942, when Nazism flourished, when African Americans sat at the back of the bus, and when race was considered the determinant of people’s character and intelligence.

  • PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race

    PHIL 539: Critical Philosophy of Race Pennsylvania State University Summer 2012 The study of philosophical issues raised by racism and by the concept of race and other related concepts. This course provides an intensive examination of a major area of philosophical research: the philosophical examination of racism and of our thinking about race. It will…

  • The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking

    The cradle to the grave: Reflections on race thinking thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology Volume 115, Number 1 (April 2013) pages 43-57 DOI: 10.1177/0725513612470533 Gerhard Maré, Professor of Sociology University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban, South Africa Despite a constitutional and oft-stated political commitment to an undefined notion of non-racialism, South Africans continue to operate…

  • The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse

    The Melanin Millennium: Skin Color as 21st Century International Discourse Springer 2013 348 pages 32 illustrations Hardcover ISBN 978-94-007-4607-7 eBook ISBN: 978-94-007-4608-4 DOI: 10.1007/978-94-007-4608-4 Edited by: Ronald E. Hall, Professor of Social Work Michigan State University Addresses the issue of skin color in a worldwide context Discusses the introduction of new forms of visual media…

  • Philosophy of Race (3050)

    Philosophy of Race (3050) Appalachian State University, Boone, North Carolina Fall 2013 Kim Hall, Professor of Philosophy What is race?  What is the relationship between the category of race and racism?  What is the relationship between race and personal identity?  How do multiracial identities raise questions about the meaning of race and its relationship to…

  • Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition

    Race: A Philosophical Introduction, 2nd Edition Polity Press February 2013 240 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-7456-4965-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7456-4966-5 Paul C. Taylor, Associate Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition, Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in…

  • Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race”

    Prisoners of Abstraction? The Theory and Measure of Genetic Variation, and the Very Concept of “Race” Biological Theory July 2012 12 pages DOI: 10.1007/s13752-012-0048-0 Jonathan Michael Kaplan, Associate Professor of Philosophy Oregon State University Rasmus Grønfeldt Winther, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of California, Santa Cruz It is illegitimate to read any ontology about “race”…

  • Challenging the Racial Dichotomy in Nella Larsen’s Passing

    Nella Larsen’s “Passing” introduces two African American women on a quest for an integrated identity. Irene and Clare are two pale-skinned, childhood friends who are light enough to pass for white. Passing is a work concerned with the representation and construction of race.

  • Passing: A Strategy to Dissolve Identities and Revamp Differences

    This book takes its title from the homonymous novel by Nella Larsen who, during the Harlem Renaissance, posed the question of what it means to be black in a racist country.

  • The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory: Inaugural Sawyer Seminar

    The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory: Inaugural Sawyer Seminar University of Southern California, Univeristy Park Campus Doheny Memorial Library (DML) East Asian Seminar Room (110C) Friday, 2013-01-18, 14:00-17:00 PST (Local Time) Presented by the Center for Japanese Religions and Culture’s “Critical Mixed-Race Studies: A Transpacific Approach” Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminars…