Racism in Mind

This philosophical analysis of the phenomenon of racism brings together some of the most influential analytic philosophers writing on racism today. The introduction by Tamas Pataki outlines the historical and thematic development of conceptions of race and racism, and locates the following essays against the backdrop of contemporary reactions to that development. While the framework is primarily analytic, the volume also includes essays deeply informed by psychoanalysis, phenomenology, and feminist and social theory. The fourteen chapters in this collection address three interrelated questions: What is racism? What are the causes of racism? and What are the moral and political implications of racism? Although their approaches are wide ranging, the contributors to Racism in Mind broadly endorse a psychological-characterological approach to the understanding of many aspects of racism.

Michael P. Levine University of Western Australia Neil Altman New York University Lawrence Blum University of Massachusetts, Boston Bernard Boxill University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Michael Dummett Oxford University J. L. A. Garcia Boston College Sally Haslanger Massachusetts Institute of Technology Marguerite La Caze University of Queensland Lawrence A. Lengbeyer United States Naval Academy Michael P. Levine University of Western Australia and University of Colorado Tamas Pataki University of Melbourne and Deakin University Laurence Thomas Syracuse University Johanna Tiemann New York University Cynthia Willett Emory University Elisabeth Young-Bruehl Columbia Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research