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By establishing that racism has broad implications for how the entire field of philosophy is practised - and by whom - this work seeks to warn members of the discipline that racism concerns them. It simultaneously demonstrates to race theorists the significance of philosophy for their work. The contributing authors focus on the insights that analyses of race and racism can make to philosophy - not just to ethics and political philosophy but also to the more abstract debates of metaphysics, philosophy of mind and epistemology. Contemporary philosophy, the authors argue, continues to evade racism and, as a result, often helps to promote it. At the same time, anti-racist theorists in many disciplines regularly draw on crucial notions of objectivity, rationality, agency, individualism and truth without adequate knowledge of philosophical analyses of these very concepts. The text seeks to demonstrate the impossibility of talking thoughtfully about race without recourse to philosophy.

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This is a book to relish, not because the diverse essays are in placid agreement, but because they support and provoke a sense of hope and a rethinking of concepts and social boundaries from different angles.... This collection's contribution lies in its academic depth, its focus on the ordinary and commitments to debate the complexities of being human in relation to institutions and meanings that are racially inscribed.... I feel that philosophers, inquiring minds and academic minds will find this collection thought provoking and useful. -- Raz Yaqoob, South Bank University * Ethnic and Racial Studies *

This is a book to relish, not because the diverse essays are in placid agreement, but because they support and provoke a sense of hope and a rethinking of concepts and social boundaries from different angles.... This collection's contribution lies in its academic depth, its focus on the ordinary and commitments to debate the complexities of being human in relation to institutions and meanings that are racially inscribed.... I feel that philosophers, inquiring minds and academic minds will find this collection thought provoking and useful. --Raz Yaqoob, South Bank University Ethnic and Racial Studies The essays in this volume bring careful philosophical argument to bear on matters of contemporary concern; together they provide an approach to the topic of racism and philosophy unavailable elsewhere. --Michele M. Moody-Adams, Indiana University

The essays in this volume bring careful philosophical argument to bear on matters of contemporary concern; together they provide an approach to the topic of racism and philosophy unavailable elsewhere. --Michele M. Moody-Adams, Indiana University This is a book to relish, not because the diverse essays are in placid agreement, but because they support and provoke a sense of hope and a rethinking of concepts and social boundaries from different angles.... This collection's contribution lies in its academic depth, its focus on the ordinary and commitments to debate the complexities of being human in relation to institutions and meanings that are racially inscribed.... I feel that philosophers, inquiring minds and academic minds will find this collection thought provoking and useful. --Raz Yaqoob, South Bank University Ethnic and Racial Studies

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Susan E. Babbitt is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy, Development Studies, and Faculty of Education, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, and author of Artless Integrity: Moral Imagination, Reasons, and Stories and Impossible Dreams: Rationality, Integrity and Moral Imagination. Sue Campbell was Professor of Philosophy and Coordinator of Gender and Women's Studies at Dalhousie University, Nova Scotia, and author of Interpreting the Personal: Expression and the Formation of Feelings, also from Cornell.

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