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
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Race: Edited
Race: Introduction to the Readings
The Real Status of Blacks Today
The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race
Racism in the Head, Racism in the World
The Status of Blacks in Academic Philosophy
Reverse Discrimination as Unjustified
The Morality of Reparation
The Fact of Blackness
Prison of Color
Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy
Questions about Race
Recommended Reading for Part One
Class: Edited by Crispin Sartwell
Class: Introduction to the Readings
Civil Government is for Defence of Rich Against Poor
Manifesto of the Communist Party
Economy and Society
Men and Jobs
Seeing Ourselves Through the Eyes of the "Other": an Intellectual and Spiritual Journey
Gilded Lilies and Liberal Guilt
Working-class Culture
Questions about Class
Recommended Reading for Part Two
Gender: Edited
Gender: Introduction to the Readings
Gender Treachery: Homophobia, Masculinity, and Threatened Identities
Interpreting 'Gender'
A Matter of Discipline: Reading for Gender in Jewish Philosophy
Stages on Kant's Way: Aesthetics, Morality and the Gendered Sublime
Questions about Gender
Recommended Reading for Part Three
Sexuality: Edited
Sexuality: Introduction to the Readings
Saint Foucault
Refiguring Lesbian Desire
Markets in Women's Sexual Labour
Talking Sex
Deconstructive Strategies and the Movement against Sexual Violence
Questions about Sexuality
Recommended Reading for Part Four
Intersections: Edited
Intersections: Introduction to the Readings
Mother Tongue
Confessions of a Nice Negro, or Why I Shaved my Head
The Green Frog Skin: John (Fire)
Aren't You in the Wrong Neighbourhood?
Sunset Trailer Park
The Culture of Complaint
Have We Got a Theory for You!
A Long Line of Vendidas
Questions about Intersections
Recommended Reading for Part Five
Index
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