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More Things to Read Regarding Race and Philosophy

March 22, 2012 by Law Ware Twitter: @law_ware 7 Comments

Political philosophy through the prism of Black-American thinkers: Tommie Shelby is a distinguished professor of philosophy at Harvard university. In this text, he examines the political thought of black thinkers to arrive at a philosophical articulation of black solidarity. This is a great text to examine if one is interested in understanding black philosophical thinking about politics.

Womanist Perspective on Race: Womanism is concerned with what Bell Hooks calls the "unholy trinity of sexism, class, and race." Womanists argue that feminists should focus on sex and class, but they must not forget the ill of racism. This is a seminal text in the Womanist tradition.

-Law

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  1. Joshua says

    March 22, 2012 at 11:42 pm

    I cannot figure out which texts are being recommended here.

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  2. Law Ware Twitter: @law_ware says

    March 22, 2012 at 11:51 pm

    Both texts above.

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  3. Joshua says

    March 23, 2012 at 12:13 am

    Where?

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  4. Law Ware Twitter: @law_ware says

    March 23, 2012 at 12:37 am

    The womanism text ‘Aint’ I a Woman’ and Shelby’s ‘We who are Dark.’ The links should be above.

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  5. Joshua says

    March 23, 2012 at 12:49 am

    Thanks. I was googling for “Political philosophy through the prism of Black-American thinkers” and only coming up with this page, and clicking on the link gave me a “page missing” error. bell hooks had so many citations I went searching for “Womanist Perspective on Race” and got confused because I hadn’t found something authored by hooks with that title.

    For any other posters as dense as me:
    http://www.amazon.com/Aint-Woman-Black-Women-Feminism/dp/089608129X
    http://www.amazon.com/Who-Are-Dark-Philosophical-Foundations/dp/0674025717/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1332481731&sr=1-1

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  6. dmf says

    March 28, 2012 at 6:55 am

    http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/27/fugitive-slave-mentality/?hp

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  7. Kam says

    July 2, 2013 at 5:24 pm

    I’d imagine quite a lot of people may have already come across this but for a sort of historico-philosophical take on Race (particularly in America) http://msuweb.montclair.edu/~furrg/essays/fieldsideolandrace.html It’s Ideology and Race in American History. I read it a few years ago when i started working at a race-equality think tank and i found it put a lot of my work into an intellectual context. I don’t know how well its stood up since now as i think it’s a few years since it was published but I found it particularly useful for unpacking interactions between racial and “intellectual” features of the construct of race and how it operates in the real world. I have to say it still inform how i think about race to this day, dispite having read some more pop-science stuff on the subject (well, the first half of Steven Pinker). It’d be great to hear other people’s views on it.

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