Overview

Does 'race' make us human? Drawing upon the experience of being racialized as 'black' for the first time while living in the United States and England, Nigerian born Emmanuel Eze argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity. If we can achieve, or seriously commit to, a goal of equality for all, Eze believes that it is possible for humankind to overcome its racial antagonisms and move toward a future in which race has little significance. Achieving Our humanity explores this post-racial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and, most importantly, our future.

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... intriguing ... illuminating... sophisticated and cogent. <br>-Frank M. Kirkland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews <br> A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House. <br>-Paul Gilroy, Yale University <br>

... intriguing ... illuminating... sophisticated and cogent. -Frank M. Kirkland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House. -Paul Gilroy, Yale University

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Emmanuel C. Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the editor of Race andEnlightenment: A Reader, African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997), and Postcolonial African Philosophy: A CriticalReader (1998).

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