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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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Toward a Political Philosophy of Race
(March 2009)
Falguni A. Sheth - Author
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Examines how liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination.
Timely, controversial, and incisive, Toward a Political Philosophy of Race looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent, of Muslim men and women in the contemporary United States, and o...(Read More) |
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The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice
(October 2008)
Ronald R. Sundstrom - Author
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Considers the effects of the browning of America on philosophical debates over race, racism, and social justice.
This book considers the challenge that the so-called browning of America poses for any discussion of the future of race and social justice. In the philosophy of race there has been little reflection about how the rapid increase in the Latino, Asian American, and mixed-race populations affects the histo...(Read More) |
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Race after Sartre
(September 2008)
Antiracism, Africana Existentialism, Postcolonialism
Jonathan Judaken - Editor
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Examines Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism.
Race after Sartre is the first book to systematically interrogate Jean-Paul Sartre’s antiracist politics and his largely unrecognized contributions to critical race theories, postcolonialism, and Africana existentialism. The contributors offer an overvi...(Read More) |
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Race and Epistemologies of Ignorance
(May 2007)
Shannon Sullivan - Editor
Nancy Tuana - Editor
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Leading scholars explore how different forms of ignorance are produced and sustained, and the role they play in knowledge practices.
Offering a wide variety of philosophical approaches to the neglected philosophical problem of ignorance, this groundbreaking collection builds on Charles Mills’s claim that racism involves an inverted epistemology, an epistemology of ignorance. Contributors explore how different...(Read More) |
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Critical Affinities
(September 2006)
Nietzsche and African American Thought
Jacqueline Scott - Editor
A. Todd Franklin - Editor
Robert Gooding-Williams - Foreword by
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Explores convergences between the ideas of Friedrich Nietzsche and African American thought.
Critical Affinities is the first book to explore the multifaceted relationship between the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche and various dimensions of African American thought. Exploring the connections between these two unlikely interlocutors, the contributors focus on unmasking and understanding the root causes and ...(Read More) |
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The German Invention of Race
(February 2006)
Sara Eigen - Editor
Mark Larrimore - Editor
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Illuminates the emergence of race as a central concept in philosophy and the social sciences.
In The German Invention of Race, historians, philosophers, and scholars in literary, cultural, and religious studies trace the origins of the concept of “race” to Enlightenment Germany and seek to understand the issues at work in creating a definition of race. The work introduces a significant connection to th...(Read More) |
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The New Abolitionists
(July 2005)
(Neo)Slave Narratives and Contemporary Prison Writings
Joy James - Edited and with an introduction by
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Writings by twentieth-century imprisoned authors examining confinement, enslavement, and political organizing in prison.
“If you think modern slavery in the United States is a thing of the past, then The New Abolitionists ought to be mandatory reading. Joy James has done an incredible service by bringing together key writings by prison intellectuals over the past half century. The pieces she selected are...(Read More) |
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