Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience (Philosophy of Race)
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| Rating | : | 4.60 (620 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1498509444 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 350 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-03-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Tina Fernandes Botts is visiting assistant professor of philosophy at Oberlin College and postdoctoral fellow in the Consortium for Faculty Diversity in Liberal Arts Colleges.
Each essay is meant to represent one of three possible things: (1) what the philosopher sees as the philosopher’s best work, (2) evidence of the possible impact of the philosopher’s mixed race experience on the philosopher’s work, or (3) the philosopher’s philosophical take on the mixed race experience. The book also examines the possible relationship between the mixed race experience and certain philosophical positions.. Philosophy and the Mixed Race Experience is a collection of essays by philosophers about the mixed race experience. The book has two primary goals: (1) to collect together for the first time the work of professional, academic philosophers who have had the mixed race experience, and (2) to bring these essays together for the purpose of adding to the conversation on the question of the degree to which factical identity and philosophical work may be related
Summing Up: Recommended. The essays gathered here are rigorous and provocative efforts to philosophize about and from mixed-race experience. (Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy)Few North American philosophers and an even smaller proportion of North Americans in general have thought deeply about the way society labels some people as 'mixed race.' This volume includes some of the seminal essays that established the issue as a genuinely philosophical topic and is supplemented by new essays where the contributors draw on their personal experience to illuminate it further. By focusing on some of the manifestations of racism in the lives of mixed race people, the book expands our understanding of intersectional racial oppression. Tina Botts’s path-breaking collection gives eleven mixed race philosophers the chance to speak their minds—and they do just that, with painful and illum