Racism in Mind

by Levine, Michael P.; Pataki, Tamas

• ISBN13: 9780801442315
• ISBN10: 0801442311
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-04-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings together some of the most influential analytic philosophers writing on racism today. The introduction by Tamas Pataki outlines the historical and thematic development of conceptions of race and racism, and locates the following essays against the backdrop of contemporary reactions to that development. While the framework is primarily analytic, the volume also includes essays deeply informed by psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist and social theory. The fourteen chapters in this collection address three interrelated questions: What is racism? What are the causes of racism? and What are the moral and political implications of racism? Although their approaches are wide ranging, the contributors to Racism in Mind broadly endorse a psychological-characterological approach to the understanding of many aspects of racism.

Author Biography

Michael P. Levine University of Western Australia Neil Altman New York University Lawrence Blum University of Massachusetts, Boston Bernard Boxill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michael Dummett Oxford University J. L. A. Garcia Boston College Sally Haslanger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marguerite La Caze University of Queensland Lawrence A. Lengbeyer United States Naval Academy Michael P. Levine University of Western Australia and University of Colorado Tamas Pataki University of Melbourne and Deakin University Laurence Thomas Syracuse University Johanna Tiemann New York University Cynthia Willett Emory University Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Introduction	1	(26)
Tamas Pataki
PART I. WHAT IS RACISM?
1. The Nature of Racism	27	(8)
Michael Dummett
2. Three Sites for Racism: Social Structures, Valuings, and Vice	35	(21)
J.L.A. Garcia
3. What Do Accounts of "Racism" Do?	56	(22)
Lawrence Blum
4. Philosophy and Racism	78	(19)
Michael P. Levine
5. Oppressions: Racial and Other	97	(30)
Sally Haslanger
PART II. THE PSYCHOLOGY OF RACISM
6. Racism as Manic Defense	127	(15)
Neil Altman and Johanna Tiemann
7. The Characters of Violence and Prejudice	142	(16)
Elisabeth Young-Bruehl
8. Racism and Impure Hearts	158	(21)
Lawrence A. Lengbeyer
9. Psychoanalysis, Racism, and Envy	179
Tamas Pataki
PART III. RACISM, MORALITY, POLITICS
10. Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race	209	(16)
Bernard Boxill
11. Upside-down Equality: A Response to Kantian Thought	225	(18)
Laurence Thomas
12. The Social Element: A Phenomenology of Racialized Space and the Limits of Liberalism	243	(18)
Cynthia Willett
13. If You Say So: Feminist Philosophy and Antiracism	261	(18)
Marguerite La Caze
References	279	(14)
Contributors	293	(2)
Name Index	295	(4)
Subject Index	299