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  • “I Don’t See Color” Personal and Critical Perspectives on White Privilege

    Who is white, and why should we care? There was a time when the immigrants of New York City’s Lower East Side—the Irish, the Poles, the Italians, the Russian Jews—were not white, but now “they” are. There was a time when the French-speaking working classes of Quebec were told to “speak white,” that is, to…

  • On Obama

    On Obama Routledge 2015-11-04 134 pages Paperback ISBN: 9780415525473 Hardback ISBN: 9780415525466 Paul C. Talyor, Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies Pennsylvania State University On Obama examines some of the key philosophical questions that accompany the historic emergence of the 44th US president. The purpose of this book is to take seriously the…

  • Making Blackness, Making Policy

    Making Blackness, Making Policy argues that blackness and black people are literally made rather than discovered. The social construction of blackness involves the naming of individuals as black, and the subsequent interaction between this naming and racial projects. The process of naming involves an intersubjective dialogue in which racial self-identification and ascription by others lead…

  • Philosophy of race meets population genetics

    Philosophy of race meets population genetics Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part C: Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences Volume 52, August 2015 pages 46–55 Genomics and Philosophy of Race DOI: 10.1016/j.shpsc.2015.04.003 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania Highlights I discuss the recent human population-genetic research…

  • A Radical Solution to the Race Problem

    A Radical Solution to the Race Problem Philosophy of Science Volume 81, Number 5 (December 2014) pages 1025-1038 DOI: 10.1086/677694 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania It has become customary among philosophers and biologists to claim that folk racial classification has no biological basis. This paper attempts to debunk that view. In…

  • What ‘biological racial realism’ should mean

    What ‘biological racial realism’ should mean Philosophical Studies June 2012, Volume 159, Issue 2 pages 181-204 DOI: 10.1007/s11098-011-9697-2 Quayshawn Spencer, Assistant Professor of Philosophy University of Pennsylvania A curious ambiguity has arisen in the race debate in recent years. That ambiguity is what is actually meant by ‘biological racial realism’. Some philosophers mean that ‘race…

  • From Necessity to Possibility: Postmodern and Heideggerian Aspects of Passing and Identity in Early African American Novels From 1853 to 1912

    From Necessity to Possibility: Postmodern and Heideggerian Aspects of Passing and Identity in Early African American Novels From 1853 to 1912 Sage Open October-December 2015 pages 1-15 DOI: 10.1177/2158244015618234 Charles Cullum Department of English Worcester State University, Worcester, Massachusetts This article applies theories of fragmented postmodern identity and Heidegger’s modes of existence and concept of…

  • Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage

    Analogizing Interracial and Same-Sex Marriage Philosophy and Rhetoric Volume 48, Number 4, 2015 pages 561-582 Isaac West, Associate Professor of Communication Studies Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee “Like race” analogies have been critiqued from various perspectives, and this article enters that conversation to engage those criticisms from a rhetorical perspective. In short, this article makes a…

  • The Myth of the White Minority

    The Myth of the White Minority Critical Philosophy of Race Volume 3, Issue 2, 2015 pages 305-323 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut In recent years, and especially in the wake of Barack Obama’s reelection, projections that whites will soon become a minority have proliferated. In this essay, I…

  • Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription

    Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription Lexington Books May 2012 142 pages Size: 6 x 9 Hardback ISBN: 978-0-7391-7190-5 Paperback ISBN: 978-0-7391-9057-9 eBook ISBN: 978-0-7391-7191-2 Andrew J. Pierce, Lecturer Department of Philosophy Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, Connecticut Collective Identity, Oppression, and the Right to Self-Ascription argues that groups have an irreducibly collective right…