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Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race PDF

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination.European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention.Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape.His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours o...

Chapter List (11 chapters):

• Chapter 1: Blackness Visible
• Chapter 2: Preface
• Chapter 3: 1  Non-Cartesian Sums
• Chapter 4: 2  Alternative Epistemologies
• Chapter 5: 3  “But What Are You Really?”
• Chapter 6: 4  Dark Ontologies
• Chapter 7: 5  Revisionist Ontologies
• Chapter 8: 6  The Racial Polity
• Chapter 9: 7  White Right
• Chapter 10: 8  Whose Fourth of July?
• Chapter 11: Notes

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• Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race

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• Charles W. Mills
• Published by: Cornell University Press

"This is an important collection. Its organizing theme is that by analyzing the metaphysics of race-creating we can understand the importance of political analyses of the racial state. This claim is vital not only for understanding of contemporary racial problems, but also for enriching our understanding of philosophical anthropology." ―Lewis R. Gordon, Brown University

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination. European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention. Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape.

His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed.

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination.European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention.Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape.His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed.

Table of Contents

• Half Title, Title Page, Copyright, Quotation
• 1. Non-Cartesian Sums : Philosophy and the African-American Experience
• 2. Alternative Epistemologies
• 3. "But What Are You Really ?'' The Metaphysics of Race
• 4. Dark Ontologies: Blacks, Jews, and White Supremacy
• 5. Revisionist Ontologies: Theorizing White Supremacy
• 6. The Racial Polity
• pp. 119-138
• 7. White Right: The Idea of a Herrenvolk Ethics
• pp. 139-166
• 8. Whose Fourth of July? Frederick Douglass and "Original Intent,''
• pp. 167-200
• pp. 201-234
• pp. 235-244

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• Language: English
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Copyright year: 2015
• Audience: General/trade;
• Main content: 272
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• Keywords: Discrimination ; Critical Race Theory ; sociology ; cultural studies ; Cultural pluralism ; intersectionality ; Colorism ; Diversity ; social change ; social justice ; Philosophy and Race ; cultural identity ; Black Feminism ; white fragility ; white supremacy systems ; understanding white supremacy ; ethnic and race relations ; alternative epistemologies ; Equality ; dark ontologies ; racial polity ; critical theory ; race relations in america ; books on the nature of being ; metaphysics ; critical thinking ; racial metaphysics ; racial ontology ; social ontology of race ; metaphysics of racial identity ; philosophy of racial identity ; racist moral consciousness ; African American professor of philosophy ; africana philosophy ; the racial contract ; understanding critical race theory ; racial being and consciousness ; african american philosophy ; philosophy white supremacy ; philosophy and the african american experience ; introduction to philosophy ; ethics and minority studies ; minority studies ; racial studies ; ethnic studies ; otherness ; books on the other ; american philosophy ; philosophy of race relations ; philosophy of minority studies ; anthropology ; the souls of black folk ; W.E.B. Du Bois ; Black feminist texts ; racial formation in the united states ; understanding race relations in america ; philosophical introduction to race ; discrimination and racism ; books to understand racism ; racism philosophy ; political theory ; african american political theory
• Published: December 18, 2015
• ISBN: 9781501702952