Mixed Race Studies

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  • Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review]

    Linda Martín-Alcoff: Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self [Review] Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2006-06-22 Linda Martín-Alcoff, Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self, Oxford University Press, 2006, 326pp., ISBN 0195137353. Ronald Sundstrom, Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco Linda Martín Alcoff’s book, Visible Identities, offers a conception of social identities…

  • The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies

    The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies The University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee May 2009 215 pages Publication Number: AAT 3363443 ISBN: 9781109229738 Justin Ponder A Dissertation Submitted in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English The Ethics of Mixed Race Studies argues that Mixed Race Studies can challenge racial…

  • The Social Ontology of Race in the “Post-Racial” Era

    The Social Ontology of Race in the “Post-Racial” Era The University of Memphis Department of Philosophy 7th Annual Philosophy Graduate Student Association Conference 2011-02-11 through 2011-02-12 Keynote Speaker Jennifer Lisa Vest, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Central Florida In the past several decades, mainstream philosophical discourse has examined the ontology of race from a…

  • A Theory of Race

    A Theory of Race Routledge 2008-12-04 182 pages Paperback ISBN: 978-0-415-99073-8 Joshua Glasgow, Lecturer of Philosophy Somona State University, California Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of…

  • Social Construction and the Concept of Race

    Social Construction and the Concept of Race Philosophy of Science Volume 72, Number 5 (December 2005) pages 1208-1219 DOI: 10.1086/508966 Edouard Machery, Associate Professor of History and Philosophy of Science University of Pittsburgh Luc Faucher, Professor of Philosophy Université du Québec, Montréal There has been little serious work to integrate the constructionist approach and the…

  • Laughing To Keep From Crying: Resisting “Race” Through Irony

    Laughing To Keep From Crying: Resisting “Race” Through Irony Tympanum: A Journal of Comparative Literary Studies Number 4, (2000) issn# 1522-7723 Ronald Sundstrom, Director and Associate Professor of African American Studies University of San Francisco He wanted to rise-a malicious, ironic voice insisted that he rise-and, at once, to leave this temple and go out…

  • The Racial Politics of Mixed Race

    The Racial Politics of Mixed Race Journal of Social Philosophy Volume 30, Issue 2, Summer 1999 pages 276–294 DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00018 Lisa Tessman, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women’s Studies Binghamton University, State University of New York Recently there has been an increasing amount of attention given in academic, political, and popular settings in the United…

  • We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity

    We Who Are Dark: The Philosophical Foundations of Black Solidarity Harvard University Press 2005 336 pages 5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches Paperback ISBN: 9780674025714 Tommie Shelby, Professor of African and African American Studies and of Philosophy Harvard University 2005 New York Magazine Best Academic Book African American history resounds with calls for black unity. From abolitionist…

  • The Ethics of Identity

    But to what extent do “identities” constrain our freedom, our ability to make an individual life, and to what extent do they enable our individuality?

  • Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self

    In the heated debates over identity politics, few theorists have looked carefully at the conceptualizations of identity assumed by all sides. “Visible Identities” fills this gap.