Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race.

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Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and c...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Mills, Charles W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
African American philosophy.
African Americans > Race identity.
Afrocentrism.
Racism > United States > Philosophy.
Philosophie noire américaine.
Noirs américains > Identité ethnique.
Afrocentrisme.
Racisme > États-Unis > Philosophie.
PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Critical Theory.
African American philosophy
African Americans > Race identity
Afrocentrism
Racism > Philosophy
United States
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Blackness Visible; Contents; Preface; 1. Non-Cartesian Sums: Philosophy and the African-American Experience; 2. Alternative Epistemologies; 3. ""But What Are You Really?'' The Metaphysics of Race; 4. Dark Ontologies: Blacks, Jews, and White Supremacy; 5. Revisionist Ontologies: Theorizing White Supremacy; 6. The Racial Polity; 7. White Right: The Idea of a Herrenvolk Ethics; 8. Whose Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass and ""Original Intent, ''; Notes; Index.

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