Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience is a collection of essays by philosophers about the mixed race experience. Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s mixed race experience on the philosopher’s work, or (3) the philosopher’s philosophical take on the mixed race experience. The book has two primary goals: (1) to collect together for the first time the work of professional, academic philosophers who have had the mixed race experience, and (2) to bring these essays together for the purpose of adding to the conversation on the question of the degree to which factical identity and philosophical work may be related. The book also examines the possible relationship between the mixed race experience and certain philosophical positions.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-07-17
Mått150 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt503 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhilosophy of Race
Antal sidor350
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498509442

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Foreword, by Linda Martín AlcoffEditor’s Introduction: Toward a Mixed Race Theory, by Tina Fernandes BottsPart 1: Mixed Race Political TheoryChapter 1: Responsible Multiracial Politics, with a new postscript, by Ronald Robles SundstromChapter 2: Mixed Race Identity in Britain: Finding Our Roots in the Post Racial Era, by Gabriella Beckles-RaymondPart 2: Mixed Race MetaphilosophyChapter 3: Through the Looking Glass: What Philosophy Looks Like from the Inside When You’re Not Quite There, by Marina OshanaChapter 4: Being and Not Being, Knowing and Not Knowing, by Jennifer Lisa VestChapter 5: A Mixed Race (Philosophical) Experience, by Tina Fernandes BottsPart 3: Mixed Race OntologyChapter 6: The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race, by Naomi ZackChapter 7: On Being Mixed, by Linda Martín AlcoffChapter 8: Race and Ethnic Identity, by J.L.A. GarciaPart 4: Mixed Race and Major FiguresChapter 9: Through a Glass, Darkly: A Mixed-Race Du Bois, by Celena SimpsonChapter

In these essays, mixed-race philosophers address the impact of this phenomenological experience on their philosophical work—analyzing, critiquing, and reflecting on the mixed-race experience as viewed personally, historically, socially, politically, and philosophically. Rich insights into the nature of the 'lived experience' of being a 'mixed person' are on display, as are various troubling questions raised by the very existence of mixed-race persons. Is social categorization contradictory, and does it cause self-alienation by demanding monoracial identification of persons who have multiple experiences and multiple social and self ascriptions? Is race a matter of lineage, appearance, or culture? Who decides on race and for what purpose? Do mixed-race persons cause discomfort, threatening both the borders of white identity and black emancipatory projects and indigenous sovereignty? Do mixed-race persons symbolize traumatic conquest and the slavery experience? Is mixed-race experience a way to engage in interracial repair and open up different ways of knowing and being? Is it the way to a new universal humanism or virtue cosmopolitanism? This is a valuable and challenging resource. Summing Up: Recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and above.