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Habitations of the Veil
(July 2014)
Metaphor and the Poetics of Black Being in African American Literature
Rebecka Rutledge Fisher - Author
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A hermeneutical study of metaphor in African American literature.
In Habitations of the Veil, Rebecka Rutledge Fisher uses theory implicit in W. E. B. Du Bois’s use of metaphor to draw out and analyze what she sees as a long tradition of philosophical metaphor in African American literature. She demonstrates how Olaudah Equiano, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, Zora Neale Hurston, Richard Wright, and R...(Read More) |
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Good White People
(June 2014)
The Problem with Middle-Class White Anti-Racism
Shannon Sullivan - Author
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2016 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award, presented by the Society of Professors of Education
2014 CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title
Argues for the necessity of a new ethos for middle-class white anti-racism.
Building on her book Revealing Whiteness, Shannon Sullivan identifies a constellation of attitudes c...(Read More) |
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Living Alterities
(April 2014)
Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race
Emily S. Lee - Editor
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Philosophers consider race and racism from the perspective of lived, bodily experience.
Broadening the philosophical conversation about race and racism, Living Alterities considers how people’s racial embodiment affects their day-to-day lived experiences, the lived experiences of individuals marked by race interacting with and responding to others marked by race, and the tensions that arise between d...(Read More) |
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Reproduction, Race, and Gender in Philosophy and the Early Life Sciences
(March 2014)
Susanne Lettow - Editor
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Investigates the impact of theories of reproduction and heredity on the emerging concepts of race and gender at the end of the eighteenth and the beginning of the nineteenth centuries.
Focusing on the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, this volume highlights the scientific and philosophical inquiry into heredity and reproduction and the consequences of these developing ideas on understandings of race...(Read More) |
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Kant and the Concept of Race
(August 2013)
Late Eighteenth-Century Writings
Jon M. Mikkelsen - Editor/translator
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Late eighteenth-century writings on race by Kant and four of his contemporaries.
Kant and the Concept of Race features translations of four texts by Immanuel Kant frequently designated his Racenschriften (race essays), in which he develops and defends an early theory of race. Also included are translations of essays by four of Kant’s contemporaries—E. A. W. Zimmermann, Georg Forster, ...(Read More) |
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Africa, Asia, and the History of Philosophy
(June 2013)
Racism in the Formation of the Philosophical Canon, 1780–1830
Peter K. J. Park - Author
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2016 Frantz Fanon Prize for Outstanding Book in Caribbean Thought, presented by the Caribbean Philosophical Association
A historical investigation of the exclusion of Africa and Asia from modern histories of philosophy.
In this provocative historiography, Peter K. J. Park provides a penetrating account of a crucial period in the development of philosophy...(Read More) |
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Seeking the Beloved Community
(May 2013)
A Feminist Race Reader
Joy James - Author
Beverly Guy-Sheftall - Foreword by
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Selected essays on radical social change.
Written over the course of twenty years, the essays brought together here highlight and analyze tensions confronted by writers, scholars, activists, politicians, and political prisoners fighting racism and sexism. Focusing on the experiences of black women calling attention to and resisting social injustice, the astonishing scale of mass and politically driven imprisonmen...(Read More) |
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Reframing the Practice of Philosophy
(January 2012)
Bodies of Color, Bodies of Knowledge
George Yancy - Editor
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Reflections by leading Latin American and African American philosophers on their identity within the field of philosophy.
This daring and bold book is the first to create a textual space where African American and Latin American philosophers voice the complex range of their philosophical and meta-philosophical concerns, approaches, and visions. The voices within this book protest and theorize from their own stan...(Read More) |
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Constructing the Nation
(October 2009)
A Race and Nationalism Reader
Mariana Ortega - Editor
Linda Martín Alcoff - Editor
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Philosophers and social theorists of color examine how racism can creep into defensive forms of nationalism.
“What does it mean today to be an ‘American’ when one does not represent or embody the norm of ‘Americanness’ because of one’s race, ethnicity, culture of origin, religion, or some combination of these? What is the norm of ‘Americanness’ today, how has it chang...(Read More) |
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Beyond Negritude
(September 2009)
Essays from Woman in the City
Paulette Nardal - Author
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting - Translated with an introduction and notes by
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Key text never before in English by central figure of the Negritude movement.
In the aftermath of World War II, Paulette Nardal, the Martinican woman most famously associated with the Negritude movement and its founders Aimé Césaire, Léopold Senghor, and Léon Damas during Paris’s interwar years, founded the journal Woman in the City. This annotated translation, with an in...(Read More) |
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