Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality The Big

This ambitious philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorizing on social identity. The editors redirect classic philosophical questions about personal identity to the categories of race, class, gender and sexuality. Readings consist of scholarly, popular, autobiographical and literary writings that engage issues in racial theory, social and political philosophy and feminism. A fifth part of the book on intersection illustrates the conceptual problems with essentialism and the taxonomy of identity politics. The importance of narrative accounts of social life within these significant identity categories is emphasized throughout the volume.

Naomi Zack is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany. She is the author of Race and Mixed Race (1993), Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth Century Identity Then and Now (1996), Thinking About Race (1998). She is the Editor of American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity (1995) and Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay (1997).

Laurie Shrage is Professor and Department Chair of Philosophy at California State Polytechmic University, Pomona. She is the author of Moral Dilemmas of Feminism: Prostitution, Adultery, and Abortion (1994).

Crispin Sartwell is Associate Professor of Humanities at Pennsylvania State University, Capital College. He is the author of The Art of Living: Aesthetics of the Ordinary in World Spiritual Traditions (1995), Obscenity, Anarchy, Reality (1996), and Act Like You Know: African-American Autobiography and White Identity.

About the Editors

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Acknowledgments

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Introduction

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Naomi Zack

PART ONE RACE: EDITED BY NAOMI ZACK

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Race: Introduction to the Readings

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1 The Real Status of Blacks Today

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DERRICK BELL

2 The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race

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KWAME ANTHONY APPIAH

3 Racism in the Head, Racism in the World

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JUDITH LICHTENBERG

4 The Status of Blacks in Academic Philosophy

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LEONARD HARRIS

5 Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified

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LISA H. NEWTON

6 The Morality of Reparation

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BERNARD R. BOXILL

7 The Fact of Blackness

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FRANTZ FANON

8 Prison of Color

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VIRGINIA R. HARRIS

9 Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy

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NAOMI ZACK

Questions about Race

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