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  • Race, Hybridity, and Miscegenation

    Volumes 1 and 2 of this 3 volume set collect the major contributions to the scientific debate on the unity of the human race in the 1850s, focusing particularly on the idea of hybridity. Volume 3 republishes the major contributions to the political debate on miscegenation.

  • The Idea Of Race

    The Idea Of Race Hackett Publishing Company 2000 256 pages Cloth ISBN: 0-87220-459-6, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-459-1 Paper ISBN: 0-87220-458-8, ISBN-13: 978-0-87220-458-4 Edited by Robert Bernasconi, Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of Philosophy Pennsylvania State University Tommy L. Lott, Professor of Philosophy San José State University A survey of the historical development of the idea of race, this…

  • The Racial Contract

    “The Racial Contract” puts classic Western social contract theory, deadpan, to extraordinary radical use. With a sweeping look at the European expansionism and racism of the last five hundred years, Charles W. Mills demonstrates how this peculiar and unacknowledged “contract” has shaped a system of global European domination: how it brings into existence “whites” and…

  • Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’

    Philosophical aspects of the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ Anthropological Theory Volume 1, Number 4 (December 2001) pages 445-465 DOI: 10.1177/14634990122228836 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon I apply philosophical analysis to the ‘AAA Statement on “Race”’ (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter (1997).…

  • Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects

    Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects University of Texas Press 2004 6 x 9 in. 225 pages ISBN: 978-0-292-74345-8 Print-on-demand title Edited by: SanSan Kwan, Associate Professor of Dance, Performance Studies University of California, Berkeley and Kenneth Speirs (1964-2013), Professor of English University of California, Berkeley Foreword by Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon The…

  • American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity

    This exciting multidisciplinary collection brings together twenty-two original essays by scholars on the cutting edge of racial theory, who address both the American concept of race and the specific problems experienced by those who do not fit neatly into the boxes society requires them to check.

  • Race and Mixed Race

    Race and Mixed Race Temple University Press October 1993 232 pages 6×9 paper: EAN: 978-1-56639-265-5, ISBN: 1-56639-265-9      Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon In the first philosophical challenge to accepted racial classifications in the United States, Naomi Zack uses philosophical methods to criticize their logic. Tracing social and historical problems related to…

  • The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications

    The (Mono-) Racial Contract: Mixed-Race Implications Canadian Political Science Association 79th Annual Conference 2007-05-30 through 2007-06-01 Paper Dated: 2007-05-17 Debra Thompson, Assistant Professor of Political Science Ohio University Nearly a decade ago, Charles Mills brought ‘race’ into mainstream political theory through his theory of the Racial Contract; namely, that all social contracts are underwritten by the…

  • Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race

    Signs of Race in Poststructuralism: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race University Press of America, Inc. March 2009 176 pages 6 1/2 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4505-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7618-4506-5 Robert Young, Associate Professor of English University of Alabama This book presents a class-based analysis of poststructuralism and race.  The author positions this fundamental…

  • The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review)

    The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Review) by Ronald R. Sundstrom SUNY Press 2008, 190pp., $24.95 (pbk.) ISBN: 9780791475867 Notre Dame Philisophical Reviews 2009-06-29 Reviewed by Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.) Vanderbilt University The United States is undergoing the most profound demographic changes in the country’s history so that in a few…