Racism and Philosophy

by Babbitt, Susan E.; Campbell, Sue

• ISBN13: 9780801485046
• ISBN10: 0801485045
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-07-01
• Publisher: Cornell Univ Pr

Summary

By definitively establishing that racism has broad implications for how the entire field of philosophy is practiced -- and by whom -- this powerful and convincing book puts all members of the discipline on notice that racism concems them. It simultaneously demonstrates to race theorists the significance of philosophy for their work.

Author Biography

Susan E. Babbitt is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and author of Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity, and Moral Imagination. Sue Campbell is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and author of Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings, also from Comell.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Racism and the Practice of Philosophy
The Racial Polity	p. 13
Fanon, Philosophy, and Racism	p. 32
On Race and Philosophy	p. 50
Racism: Paradigms and Perspectives
Moral Asymmetries in Racism	p. 79
Racism: Paradigms and Moral Appraisal (A Response to Blum)	p. 98
Contempt and Ordinary Inequality	p. 108
Colonial Racism: Sweeping Out Africa with Mother Europe's Broom	p. 124
Reading the Colonizer's Mind: Lord Lugard and the Philosophical Foundations of British Colonialism	p. 157
Morality, Identities, and "Race"
Split-Level Equality: Mixing Love and Equality	p. 189
"Race" and the Labor of Identity	p. 202
Dominant Identities and Settled Expectations	p. 216
Moral Risk and Dark Waters	p. 235
Notes	p. 255
Bibliography	p. 277
Contributors	p. 289
Index	p. 291
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