Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity

Peter Osborne is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at Middlesex University. He is co-editor of the Radical Philosophy journal. Stella Sandford is Professor of Modern European Philosophy at the Centre for Research in Modern European Philosophy (CRMEP) at Kingston University London, UK. She is author of numerous works including Plato and Sex (2010), How to Read Beauvoir (2006), and The Metaphysics of Love: Gender and Transcendence in Levinas (2000) and co-editor, with Mandy Merck, of Further Adventures of the Dialectic of Sex: Critical Essays on Shulamith Firestone (2010) and, with Peter Osborne, Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity (2002).

• Introduction - Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity, Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford. Part I: Philosophy and Racial Identity, Linda Mart n Alcoff; Fanon, Phenomenology, Race, David Macey; Primordial Being - Enlightenment and the Indian Subject of Postcolonial Theory, Chetan Bhatt; Race and Language in the Two Saussures, Robert J. C. Young. Part II: Unspeakable Histories - Diasporic Lives in Old England, Bill Schwarz; Race, Colonialism, and History - China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century, Rebecca E. Karl; Ethnicity and Species - On the Philosophy of the Multi-ethnic State in Japanese Imperialism, Naoki Sakai; On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem, Rey Chow; Race and Slavery - The Politics of Recovery and Reparation, Francoise Verges; Rewriting the Black Subject - The Black Brazilian Emancipatory Text, Denise Ferreira da Silva.

"By approaching race thinking across a broader range of contexts than is usual and by investigating it with an attention to historical specificity that is still regrettably rare, Philosophies Of Race And Ethnicity makes a unique contribution to the development of a transcultural approach to critical race theory."--Robert Bernasconi, The University of Memphis