RACE
(PHILOSOPHY OF RACE / CRITICAL RACE THEORY)

SUB-PAGES

Related Pages:

• Post-colonial Theory

ASSOCIATIONS

• Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN)

• California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race

• National Association of Ethnic Studies

• Scholars in Critical Race Studies (SCRS)

CONFERENCES

2008:

• Fifth Annual Meeting, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, University of California, Berkeley, October 3-4

2007:

• Public Memory and Ethnicity, York Center for Public Memory Studies, Lewis and Clark, October 26-28
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• Fourth Annual Meeting, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, California State University, Northridge, October 5-6

2006:

• Border Politics of Whiteness, Department of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University, and the Australian Critical Race and Whiteness Studies Association, December 11-13

• Transnational Perspectives: Intersections of Race, Ethnicity and Religion, National Association of Ethnic Studies, Bogazici University, November 15-17

• Third Annual Meeting, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, University of San Francisco, September 22-23

• Slavery: Citizenship and the State, Sixth International ISOS Conference, University of Nottingham, September 4-6

• Naming Race, Naming Racism, Scholars in Critical Race Studies (SCRS), University of Memphis, April 20-21

2005:

• Black European Studies, Johann-Gutenberg-University Mainz, Germany, November 10-13

• Second Annual Meeting, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, California State University, Northridge, September 23-25

• Dominance of Cultures and Interculturality, Sixth International Congress on Intercultural Philosophy, Missionswissenschaftliches Institut Aachen, Rosa-Luxemburg-Stiftung, Fachhochschule Lausitz, Senftenberg/Niederlausitz (Germany), May 23-27

2004:

• Mending the Past: Memory and the Politics of Forgiveness, Centre de recherche sur l'immigration, l'ethnicité et la citoyenneté (CRIEC), Université de Quebec à Montreal, October 13-15

• First Annual Meeting, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race, University of San Francisco, September 24-26

• Imagining Diasporas: Space, Identity and Social Change, University of Windsor, May 14-16

• 32nd Annual Conference, National Association of Ethnic Studies, Philadelphia, April 1-3

• Reparations: an Interdisciplinary Examination of Some Philosophical Issues, Department of Philosophy, Queen's University, Canada, February 6-8

2003:

• Harvard Color Lines Conference: Segregation and Integration in America's Present and Future, Civil Rights Project, University of Harvard, September 11-14

• Close Encounters of an Other Kind: New Perspectives on Race, Ethnicity and American Studies, University of Joensuu, Finland, June 6-8

• The Dreyfus Affair Race: Religion and the Moulding of National Identity, Wittenberg University, Springfield, Ohio, March 26-29

2002:

• The Persistence of Race into the 21st Century, Bucknell University, September 26-28

2001:

2000:

Annual:

• Annual Conference, California Roundtable on Philosophy and Race

Ongoing:

• Symposia on Gender, Race and Philosophy (Massachussetts Institute of Technology)

COURSES

• APA Committees: Diversity Syllabi Project
• Harvard University:
  • Identity and Individuality: Race, Society, and State Proseminar (Appiah)
  • Marxist Theories of Racism (Shelby)
  • Philosophical Perspectives on Race and Racism (Shelby) or here
  • Philosophical Problems of Race and Racism
• Lehigh University: Race and Philosophy (Bearn)
• University of Michigan: History of Modern Racism (Anderson)
• Michigan State University:
  • Philosophy and Race (Petersen)
  • Race, Racism and the Social Contract (Lawson)
• University of Oregon: Philosophy of Race (Zack)
• Purdue University:
  • Philosophies of Race and Racism (Michau)
  • Theory and the Holocaust (Felluga)
• Southwestern University: Theories of Race (Winnubst)
• Swarthmore College: Ethnicities in the Modern World (Mani)

JOURNALS

• Ethnic and Racial Studies

• Ethnoscapes: an Interdisciplinary Journal on Race and Ethnicity in the Global Context

• Race and Class

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Kenan Malik (1960 - )

• Derrick Bell ( - )

• Kimberle Crenshaw ( - )

• Richard Delgado ( - )

• David Theo Goldberg ( - )

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Augstein, Hannah, ed.  Race: the Origin of an Idea, 1760-1850.  London: Continuum, 1996.

  • Babbitt, Susan, and Sue Campbell, eds.  Racism and Philosophy.  Ithaca: Cornel UP, 1999.

  • Back, Les, and John Solomos, eds.  Theories of Race and Racism.  London: Routledge, 2000.

  • Barclay, William, Krishna Kumar, and Ruth P. Simms, eds. Racial Conflict, Discrimination, and Power: Historical and Contemporary Studies.  New York: AMS, 1976.

  • Barth, Frederik, ed.  Ethnic Groups and Boundaries: the Social Organization of Culture Difference.  Boston: Little, Brown, 1969.

  • Bernasconi, Robert, and Sybol Cook, eds.  Race and Racism in Continental Philosophy.  Bloomington: Indiana UP, 2003.

  • Bernasconi, Robert, ed.  Race, Hybridity and Miscegenation.  Bristol: Thoemmes Continuum, 2005.

  • Bernasconi, Robert, ed.  Race.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2001.

  • Bernasconi, Robert, and Tommy Lott, eds.  The Idea of Race.  Indianapolis: Hackett, 2000.

  • Boxill, Bernard R., ed.  Race and Racism.  Oxford: OUP, 2001.

  • Crenshaw, Kimberle, N. Gotanda, G. Peller, and K. Thomas, eds.  Critical Race Theory: the Key Writings that Formed the Movement.  New York: New Press, 1995.

  • Count, Earl, ed.  This is Race.  New York: Henry Schuman, 1950.

  • Essed, Philomena, and David Theo Goldberg, eds.  Race Critical Theories: Text and Context.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

  • Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi, ed.  Race and the Enlightenment: a Reader.  Oxford; Blackwell, 1997.

  • Gates, Henry Louis, Jr., ed.  "Race,' Writing and Difference.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.

  • Guiberneau, Montserrat, and John Rex, eds.  The Ethnicity Reader: Nationalism, Multiculturalism and Migration.  Cambridge: Polity, 1997.

  • Goldberg, David Theo, ed.  Anatomy of Racism.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990.

  • Harris, Leonard, ed.  Racism.  Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1999.

  • Hutchinson, John and Anthony D. Smith, eds.  Ethnicity.  Oxford: OUP, 1996.

  • Lane, Christopher, ed.  The Psychoanalysis of Race.  New York: Columbia UP, 1998.

  • Lott, Tommy L., and Julie K, Ward, eds.  Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002.

  • Osborne, Peter, and Stella Sandford, eds.  Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity.  London: Continuum, 2002.

  • Rex, John, and David Mason, eds.  Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations.  Cambridge: CUP, 1986.

  • Sollors, Werner, ed.  Theories of Ethnicity: a Classical Reader.  New York: New York UP, 1996. 

  • Sollors, Werner, ed.  The Invention of Ethnicity.  Oxford: OUP, 1991.

  • Watson, Peter, ed.  Psychology and Race.  Chicago: Aldine, 1974.

  • Zubaida, Sami, ed.  Race and Racialism.  London: Tavistock, 1970.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Adorno, Theodor, Else Frenkel-Brunswick, Daniel J. Levinson, and R. Nevitt Sandford.  The Authoritarian Personality.  New York: Harper and Row, 1950.  

  • Alcoff, Linda Martin.  "Philosophy and Racial Identity."  Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity.  Ed. Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford.  London: Continuum, 2002.  13-28.

  • Allport, Gordon W.  The Nature of Prejudice.  Reading, Mass.: Addison-Wesley, 1954.

  • Barker, Martin.  The New Racism.  New York: Greenwood, 1981.

  • Bracken, Harry M.  “Philosophy and Racism.”  Philosophia 7 (1978): 241-60.

  • Bracken, Harry M.  “Essence, Accident, and Race.”  Hermathena 116 (1973): 81-96.

  • Corlett, J. Angelo.  Race, Racism, and Reparations.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 2003.

  • Dalal, Farhad.  "The Racism of Jung."  Race and Class 29.3 (1988): 1-23.

  • Delacampagne Christian.  "Racism and the West: from Praxis to Logos."  Anatomy of Racism.  Ed. David Theo Goldberg.  Minneapolis: U of Minnesota P, 1990.  83-88.

  • Delacampagne Christian.  L'Invention du racisme.  Paris: Fayard, 1983.

  • Derrida, Jacques.  "Le Dernier mot du racisme."  Exhibition of the Association of Artists of the World Against Apartheid, Paris, November, 1983.

    • "Racism's Last Word."  Critical Inquiry 12.1 (1985): 290-9.  Rpt. in "Race,' Writing and Difference.  Ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.  Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1986.  329-338.

  • Donald, James, and Ali Rattansi, eds.  'Race,' Culture and Difference.  London: Sage, 1992.

  • Esonwanne, Uzo.  "'Race' and Hermeneutics: Paradigm Shift -- from Scientific to Hermeneutic Understanding of Race."  African American Review 26.4 (1992): 565-582.

  • Dyer, Richard.  White.  London: Routledge, .

  • Gabriel, John, and Gideon Ben-Tovim.  “Marxism and the Concept of Racism.”  Economy and Society 7 (1978): 118-154.

  • Gilman, Sander.  The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siecle.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1993.

  • Gilman, Sander.  Freud, Race, and Gender.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 1993.

  • Gilman, Sander.  Difference and Pathology: Stereotypes of Sexuality, Race and Madness.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1985.

  • Immerwahr, John, and Michael Burke.  “Race and the Modern Philosophy Course.”  Teaching Philosophy (1993): 21-34.

  • Immerwahr, John, and Michael Burke.  “Hume’s Revised Racism.”  Journal of the History of Ideas 53 (1992): 481-86.

  • Jackson, John L.  Racial Paranoia: the Unintended Consequences of Political Correctness.  New York: Basic Civitas, 2008.

  • Johnson, Charles.  Being and Race: Black Writing Since 1970.  Indianapolis: Indiana UP, 1988.

  • Kitcher, Philip.  "Race, Ethnicity, Biology, Culture."  Racism.  Ed. Leonard Harris.  Amherst, NY: Humanity Books, 1999.

  • Kovel, J. White Racism: a Psychohistory.  New York: Pantheon, 1970.

  • LaCapra, Dominick, and Steven L. Kaplan, eds.  The Bounds of Race: Perspectives on Hegemony and Resistance.  Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1991.

  • Lang, Beryl.  "Metaphysical Racism (Or, Biological Warfare by Other Means)."  RACE / SEX: their Sameness, Difference and Interplay. London: Routledge, 1997.  18-27.

  • Lipsitz, George.  The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit from Identity Politics.  Philadelphia: Temple UP, 1998.

  • Malik, Kenan.  Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides are Wrong in the Race Debate.   Oxford: Oneworld, 2008.

  • Malik, Kenan.  The Meaning of Race: Race, History and Culture in Western Society.  New York: New York UP, 1996.  
  • Miles, Robert.  Racism.  London: Routledge, 1989.
  • Miles, Robert.  Racism and Migrant Labour.  London: Routledge, 1982.
  • Miles, Robert.  “Class, Race and Ethnicity: a Critique of Cox’s Theory.”  Ethnic and Racial Studies 3 (1980): 169-187.
  • Omi, M., and H. Winant.  Racial Formations in the United States: from the 1960s to the 1980s.  London: Routledge, 1986.
  • Pajackowska, Claire, and Lola Young.  "Racism, Representation, Psychoanalysis."  'Race,' Culture and Difference.  Ed. James Donald and Ali Rattansi.  London: Sage, 1992.
  • Park, Robert Ezra.  Race and Culture: Essays in the Sociology of Contemporary Man.  London: Free Press of Glencoe, 1950.
  • Rackett, Tim.  "Racist Social Fantasy and Paranoia."  Vol. 2 of Europe and its Others.  Ed. Francis Barker, Peter Hulme, Margaret Iversen, and Diana Loxley.  2 vols.  Colchester: U of Essex, 1985.  190-200.
  • Rattansi, Ali, and Sallie Westwood, eds.  Racism, Modernity and Identity: on the Western Front.  Cambridge: Polity, 1995.

  • Rex, John.   “The Concept of Race in Sociological Theory.”  Race and Racialism.  Ed. Sami Zubaid.  London: Tavistock, 1970. 35-55.

  • Rex, John.  Race Relations in Sociological Theory.  London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1970.

  • Sanford, Nevitt.  “The Roots of Prejudice: Emotional Dynamics.”  Psychology and Race.  Ed. Peter Watson.  Chicago: Aldine, 1973. 57-75.

  • Schils, Edward.  “Color, the Universal Intellectual Community, and the Afro-Asian Intellectual.”  Racial Conflict, Discrimination, and Power: Historical and Contemporary Studies.  Ed. William Barclay, Krishna Kumar, and Ruth P. Simms.  New York: AMS, 1976.  425-36.

  • Seshadri-Crooks, Kalpana.  Desiring Whiteness: a Lacanian Analysis of Race.  London: Routledge, 2000.

  • Solomos, John.  “Varieties of Marxist Conceptions of ‘Race’, Class and the State: a Critical Analysis.”  Theories of Race and Ethnic Relations.  Ed. John Rex and David Mason.  Cambridge: CUP, 1986. 84-109.

  • Tajfel, Henri.  “The Roots of Prejudice: Cognitive Aspects.”  Psychology and Race.  Ed. Peter Watson.  Chicago: Aldine, 1973.  76-95.

  • Todorov, Tzvetan.  Nous et les autres: la Réflexion Française sur la diversité humaine.  Paris: Seuil, 1989.

    • On Human Diversity: Nationalism, Racism, and Exoticism in French Thought.  Cambridge: Harvard UP, 1994.

  • Van den Berghe, Pierre L.  The Ethnic Phenomenon.  New York: Elsevier, 1981.

  • Van den Berghe, Pierre L.  "Race and Ethnicity: a Socio-Biological Perspective."  Ethnic and Racial Studies 1.4 (1978): .

  • Wetherell, Margaret, and Jonathan Potter.  Mapping the Language of Racism: Discourse and the Legitimation of Exploitation.  New York: Columbia UP, 1992.

  • Zizek, Slavoj.  "Love Thy Neighbour?  No Thanks."  The Psychoanalysis of Race.  Ed. Christopher Lane.  New York: Columbia UP, 1998.  154-175.

On-Line:

• Li, Huey-li: Multicultural Foundations for Philosophy of Education

• Nayak, Anoop: After Race: Ethnography, Race and Post-Race Theory Ethnic and Racial Studies 29.3 (2006): 411-430.

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Cashmore, Ernest, Michael Banton, James Jennings, Barry Troyna, Pierre L. Van Den Berghe, eds.  Dictionary of Race and Ethnic Relations.  London: Routledge, .

  • Goldberg, David Theo, ed.  Multiculturalism: a Critical Reader.  Oxford: Blackwell, 1994.

  • Goldberg, David Theo, and John Solomos, eds.  Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies.  Oxford: Blackwell, 2002 .

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Banton, Michael.  Racial Theories.  Cambridge: CUP, 1998.

  • Bulmer, Martin, and John Solomos.  Ethnic and Racial Studies Today.  London: Routledge, 1999.

  • Delgado, Richard, Jean Stefancic, and Angela Harris.  Critical Race Theory: an Introduction.  New York: New York UP, 2001.

  • Fenton, Steve.  Ethnicity.  Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, 1999.

  • Fenton, Steve, and Steven May.  Ethnonational Identities.  New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2003.

  • Frederickson, George M.  Racism: a Short History.  Princeton: Princeton UP, 2003.

  • Hannaford, Ivan.  Race: the History of an Idea in the West.  Baltimore: Johns Hopkins UP, 1996.

  • Taylor, Paul C.  Race: a Philosophical Introduction.  Cambridge: Polity, 2004.

On-Line:

• Alibhai-Brown, Yasmin: Black Racism is Every Bit as Bad as White Racism

• Fish, Stanley: Reverse Racism, or How the Pot Got to Call the Kettle Black

• Gans, Herbert J.: Race as Class Contexts 4.4 (2005)

• McLemee, Scott: The Future of Minority Studies Research Project (Post-Positivist Realism):

  • The Power of Postpositive Thinking Inside Higher Ed August 2, 2006

  • Think Postpositive Chronicle February 13, 2004

• Carol Moeller: Review of Reclaiming Identity and Literary Theory and the Claims of History Cultural Logic 4.2 (2002)

• Early, Gerald L.: The End of Race as We Know It Chronicle Review October 10, 2008

• James, Michael: Race (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

• Lawson, Dominic: Review of Strange Fruit: Why Both Sides Are Wrong in the Race Debate by Kenan Malik Times June 22, 2008

• Orr, David: Poetic Injustice: Is There Any Real Difference Between a Bigoted Versifier and a "Redneck" BBQ Chef?

• Rose, Flemming: Europe's Politics of Victimology Sign and Sight May 30, 2006

• Social Science Research Council Web Forum: Is Race 'Real'?  Race and Genomics

• University of Texas, Austin: Critical Race Theory

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia:

  • Race:

    • Critical Race Theory

• Young, Robert: Putting Materialism back into Race Theory: Toward a Transformative Theory of Race Red Critique (2006)

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Europe:

• UK:

  • Brighton University: School of Historical and Critical Studies: MA in 'Race,' Nation, Ethnicity
  • University of Leeds: Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies
  • University of London:
    • Royal Holloway College: Department of Germany: MA in Holocaust Studies

  • Middlesex University: School of Humanities, Languages and Cultural Studies: Race and Culture

Middle East:

• Israel:

  • Tel Aviv University: Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Anti-Semitism and Racism

USA:

• University of California: Multi-campus Research Group on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies

• University of Chicago: Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture

• Columbia University: Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity
• Future of Minority Studies Research Project
• University of Nebraska, Lincoln: Institute for Ethnic Studies

• Ohio State University: Kirwan Institute for the Study of Race and Ethnicity

• University of Wisconsin, Madison: Border and Transcultural Studies Research Circle

WWW GATEWAYS

• Drexel University: Critical Race Theory Resource Guide

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