In Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition , Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume, Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, while engaging the ideas of such important figures as Linda Alcoff, K. Anthony Appiah, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sally Haslanger, and Howard Winant. The result is a comprehensive but accessible introduction to philosophical race theory and to a non-biological and situational notion of race. The book unfolds in a sequence of five chapters, each devoted to one of the following questions: What is race-thinking? Don?t we know better than to talk about race now? Are there any races? What is it like to have a racial identity? And how important, ethically, is colorblindness? On the way to answering these questions, Race takes up topics like mixed-race identity, white supremacy, the relationship between the race concept and other social identity categories and the impact of race-thinking on our erotic and romantic lives. The second edition?s new concluding chapter explores the racially fraught issues of policing, immigration, and global justice, and interrogates the thought that Barack Obama has ushered in a post-racial age. This volume is suitable for the educated general reader as well as for students and scholars in ethnic studies, philosophy, sociology, and other related fields.
Show moreIn Race: A Philosophical Introduction, Second Edition , Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-travelled but still-mysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition, the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy, analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume, Taylor outlines the main features and implications of race-thinking, while engaging the ideas of such important figures as Linda Alcoff, K. Anthony Appiah, W. E. B. Du Bois, Michel Foucault, Sally Haslanger, and Howard Winant. The result is a comprehensive but accessible introduction to philosophical race theory and to a non-biological and situational notion of race. The book unfolds in a sequence of five chapters, each devoted to one of the following questions: What is race-thinking? Don?t we know better than to talk about race now? Are there any races? What is it like to have a racial identity? And how important, ethically, is colorblindness? On the way to answering these questions, Race takes up topics like mixed-race identity, white supremacy, the relationship between the race concept and other social identity categories and the impact of race-thinking on our erotic and romantic lives. The second edition?s new concluding chapter explores the racially fraught issues of policing, immigration, and global justice, and interrogates the thought that Barack Obama has ushered in a post-racial age. This volume is suitable for the educated general reader as well as for students and scholars in ethnic studies, philosophy, sociology, and other related fields.
Show morePreface ix
Acknowledgments xiii
Part I Theory 1
2 Three Challenges to Race-Thinking 27
3 What Races Are: The Metaphysics of Critical Race Theory 70
Part II Practice 119
4 Existence, Experience, Elisions 121
5 The Color Question 156
Further Reading 184
Notes 188
Index 193
Paul C. Taylor is associate professor and acting chair at Pennsylvania State University.
"An exemplary text - the second edition deserves to be widely readand adopted in classrooms." South African Journal of Philosophy "Taylor has succeeded at introducing a wide audience to a timelyand rich topic with considerable purchase on the American socialdiscourse he targets." LSE Review of Books "What makes the witty and clearly-written Race: A PhilosophicalIntroduction such a valuable book is that Taylor not onlythoroughly dissects the concept of race to show its inner workingsbut also provides a cogent and rational argument for the continuedemployment of race as a category for both describing our presentsocial reality as well as serving to undo the harm inflicted byever-evolving forms of racialism." Marx and Philosophy "Paul Taylor may only, as he says, 'gently recommend' the approachhe develops here, but he offers compelling arguments that raise thelevel of discussion on all sorts of race matters. This new editionextends the discussion to more recent topics, such as the demise ofaffirmative action and new work on the metaphysics of race, makingthe book more useful than ever. And it is still the mostentertaining philosophy book I have ever read." Linda Martin Alcoff, Syracuse University "Moving fluidly and wittily between high theory and popularculture, Paul Taylor s book is, quite simply, the bestphilosophical introduction to race I know. I have made it arequired text every time I have taught race, whether at theundergraduate or graduate levels. This welcome new edition updatesthe 2003 original to include Barack Obama s election,controversies around undocumented immigration, and the ominouspattern of growing securitization all shaped by racein a very much non-post-racial world." Charles Mills, Northwestern University
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