Category: Philosophy

  • Tuvel structures her argument more or less as follows: (1) We accept the following premises about trans people and the rights and dignity to which they are entitled; (2) we also accept the following premises about identities and identity change in general; (3) therefore, the common arguments against transracialism fail, and we should accept that…

  • Considerations that support transgenderism seem to apply equally to transracialism. Although Dolezal herself may or may not represent a genuine case of a transracial person, her story and the public reaction to it serve helpful illustrative purposes.

  • On the contrary, racial and ethnic registries and immigration quota systems have long been integral to America’s approach to regulating the freedom, movement, and rights of non-whites.

  • One influential view is that at least some putatively natural human kinds are actually social constructions, understood as some real kind of thing that is produced or sustained by our social and conceptual practices. Category constructionists share two commitments: they hold that human category terms like “race” (and racial terms) and “sex” (and sexual terms)…

  • Cultural Studies 1983: A Theoretical History Duke University Press 2016 232 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8223-6248-7 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8223-6263-0 Stuart Hall (1932–2014) Edited by: Jennifer Daryl Slack, Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies Michigan Technological University Lawrence Grossberg, Morris David Distinguished Professor of Communication and Cultural Studies University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill The publication of Cultural Studies…

  • Philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah says race and nationality are social inventions being used to cause deadly divisions

  • GONS-FA16.03 | Transcending Race GONS – Gonson Society Lecture Series The Cambridge Center for Adult Education 42 Brattle Street Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 2016-10-12, 11:00 EDT (Local Time) Carlos Hoyt Based on Carlos Hoyt’s recently published book, The Arc of a Bad Idea: Understanding and Transcending Race, will provide a penetrating, provocative, and promising analysis and…

  • The Trouble with Post-Blackness Columbia University Press February 2015 288 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780231169356 Hardcover ISBN: 9780231169349 E-book ISBN: 9780231538503 Edited by: Houston A. Baker, Distinguished University Professor Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee K. Merinda Simmons, Associate Professor of Religious Studies University of Alabama An America in which the color of one’s skin no longer matters…

  • This article is motivated by a concern about the increasing embrace of apolitical and ahistorical notions of racial “mixedness” and “impurity.” It draws on recent examples from the United States and South Africa in order to direct attention to the difficulties of identifying logics that, on the face of it, seem to evade conventional claims…

  • Paul Gilroy: Race and ‘Useful Violence’ Public Seminar 2016-07-08 McKenzie Wark, Professor of Culture and Media in Liberal Studies The New School for Social Research #BLM passes The New School. Aimé Césaire called it: the so-called west is a decaying civilization. In both the United States and Europe, where institutions are receding, a base level…