Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity

by Osborne, Peter; Sandford, Stella

• ISBN13: 9780826459930
• ISBN10: 0826459935
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2003-04-01
• Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Academic

Summary

Race and ethnicity have become two of the most loaded and contested concepts in teh contemporary world. Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity aims to disentangle this complexity and guide the reader to a clearer understanding of the debates. Analysing the genealogy, meanings and political uses of the concepts of race and ethnicity, Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity draws on the best scholarship from philosophy, history, post-colonial studies, political theory and literary studies to explore the structure, status and scope of these concepts. Contributors: Linda Martin Aicoff, Chetan Bhatt, Rey Chow, Rebecca Karl, David Macey, Naoki Sakai, Bill Schwarz, Denise da Silva, Francolse Verges, Robert J. C. Young

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors	vii
Introduction: Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity	1	(12)
Peter Osborne
Stella Sandford
PART I
Philosophy and Racial Identity	13	(16)
Linda Martin Alcoff
Fanon, Phenomenology, Race	29	(11)
David Macey
Primordial Being: Enlightenment and the Indian Subject of Postcolonial Theory	40	(23)
Chetan Bhatt
Race and Language in the Two Saussures	63	(18)
Robert J. C. Young
PART II
Unspeakable Histories: Diasporic Lives in Old England	81	(16)
Bill Schwarz
Race, Colonialism and History: China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century	97	(17)
Rebecca E. Karl
Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multi-ethnic State in Japanese Imperialism	114	(18)
Naoki Sakai
On Chineseness as a Theoretical Problem	132	(18)
Rey Chow
Race and Slavery: The Politics of Recovery and Reparation	150	(10)
Francoise Verges
Rewriting the Black Subject: The Black Brazilian Emancipatory Text	160	(13)
Denise Ferreira da Silva
Notes	173	(39)
Select Bibliography	212	(2)
Index	214