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Blackness Visible : Essays on Philosophy and Race /

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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1998.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Table des matières:
  • 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."