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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Main Author: Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Racism > Philosophy.
Race relations > Philosophy.
Afrocentrism.
African Americans > Race identity.
African American philosophy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
Philosophie noire americaine.
Racisme > États-Unis > Philosophie.
Noirs americains > Identite ethnique.
Afro-centrisme.
Racism > United States > Philosophy.
USA.
Schwarze.
United States.
États-Unis > Relations raciales > Philosophie.
United States > Race relations > Philosophy.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Non-Cartesian sums: philosophy and the African-American experience
  • Alternative epistemologies
  • "But what are you really?" The metaphysics of race
  • Dark ontologies: blacks, Jews, and white supremacy
  • Revisionist ontologies: theorizing white supremacy
  • The racial polity
  • White right: the idea of a Herrenvolk ethics
  • Whose Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass and "original intent."

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