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Author:   Paul C. Taylor
Publisher:   Polity Press
Imprint:   Polity Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.299kg
ISBN:  

9780745628837

ISBN 10:   0745628834
Pages:   218
Publication Date:   16 October 2003
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
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Table of Contents

Preface. Part I: Theory:. 1. What Race--Thinking Is:. The Language Of Race. What We Mean By a Racea : What Do You Mean, a Wea ?. Modern Racialism: Prehistory And Background. Power, Racial Formation, And Method. Conclusion. 2. Three Challenges To Race--Thinking:. Introduction. The Anti--Racist Challenge, Take 1: Isna t Race--Thinking Unethical?. What Racism Is. Classical Racialism: History And Background. Early Modern Racialism. High Modern, Or Classical, Racialism. The Concept Of Classical Racialism. The Challenge Of Human Variation: Isna t Racial Biology False?. Whata s Wrong With Race. The Challenge Of Social Differentiation: Isna t The Race Concept Just In The Way?. Ethnicity. Nation. Class. Caste. Intersecting Principles: Gender. Conclusion. 3. What Races Are:. Introduction. After Classical Racialism. The U.S. Racial Terrain Today. Varieties Of Racialism: Four Accounts And Ten Questions. What Races Are -- A Radical Constructionista s Story. Ten Questions. Conclusion. Part II: Practice:. 4. Existence, Experience, Elisions:. Introduction. Ethical Eliminativism, For And Against; Or, The Anti--Racist Challenge, Take 2. The Slippery Slope And The Argument From Political Realism. The Argument From Self--Realization. Existence, Identity, And Despair. The Basics. Despair And Terror. Double--Consciousness. Micro--Diversity, Part I. Microdiversity, Part II. In--Between: Illusions Of Purity And Interstitial Peoples. Experience, Invisibility, And Embodiment. The Basics. Invisibility And The Other Mind--Body Problem. From The Ontic To The Ontological. Conclusion. 5. The Color Question:. Introduction. Color And a Courtinga : The Ethics Of Miscegenation. Colorblindness And Affirmative Action. Conclusion. A Note On Further Reading. Endnotes

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Combining conceptual analysis, historical perspective, and down--to--earth yet dazzling intelligence, Race: A Philosophical Introduction is an indispensable guide to understanding and ultimately cutting through the tangle of confusion that surrounds the concept of race. In place of that confusion, Paul Taylor offers an elegant, rigorous, yet supremely common--sense view of the (non--biologistic) reality of race. This is philosophy as Socrates and John Dewey imagined it could and should be: an exacting, clear--eyed, non--doctrinaire sorting--out of one of the most pressing problems of our culture. Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities, University of Kentucky

"Combining conceptual analysis, historical perspective, and down-to-earth yet dazzling intelligence, Race: A Philosophical Introduction is an indispensable guide to understanding and ultimately cutting through the tangle of confusion that surrounds the concept of race. In place of that confusion, Paul Taylor offers an elegant, rigorous, yet supremely common-sense view of the (non-biologistic) "reality" of race. This is philosophy as Socrates and John Dewey imagined it could and should be: an exacting, clear-eyed, non-doctrinaire sorting-out of one of the most pressing problems of our culture." Susan Bordo, Otis A. Singletary Chair in the Humanities, University of Kentucky

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Paul Taylor is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Adjunct Assistant Professor of American Ethnic Studies at the University of Washington.

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