| Topical Outline: | Required Texts:
1) Philosophers on Race: Critical Essays, Julie K. Ward and
Tommy L. Lott, eds. (POR)
2) God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Vine Deloria Jr.
3) In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture,
Kwame Anthony Appiah
4) Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the
1990s, Michael Omi and Howard Winant
5) White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of
Whiteness, R. Frankenberg
6) Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Linda Martín
Alcoff
7) The Racial Contract, Charles Wade Mills and Winant
8) White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of
Whiteness, R. Frankenberg
9) Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Linda Martín
Alcoff
10) The Racial Contract, Charles Wade Mills
This course is an exploration of several topics related to
philosophy and race: race and racism in the history of Western
philosophy; contemporary and historical meanings and
understandings of racial categorizations; challenges to white
supremacist philosophical paradigms; and the significance of
matters of race for philosophical investigations concerning
identity, politics, ethics, and religion.
This is a reading intensive course. Students are expected to
attend every class and to do all assigned reading before class
meetings.
There will be an in-class quiz on the readings every week, and
a long paper assignment on a topic of your choice (12-15 pages
for undergrads, 20+ for grads). The average of your ten best
quiz grades will constitute 25% of your final grade.
“Distinction Without a Difference? Race and Genos in Plato,”
Rachana Kamtekar; “Ethnos in the Politics: Aristotle and Race,”
Julie K, Ward
“Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race,” Paul-A.
Hardy; “Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes’ Political
Philosophy,” Tommy L. Lott
“‘An Inconsistency Not to be Excused,’: On Locke and Racism,
Willliam Uzgalis; “Locke and the Dispossession of the American
Indian,” Kathy Squadrito
“Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing
Link in Rousseau’s Second Discourse,” Francis Moran III; “Kant
as and Unfamiliar Source of Racism,” Robert Bernasconi
"Liberalism’s Limits: Carlyle and Mill on ‘The Negro
Question,’” David Theo Goldberg
The Racial Contract, Charles Wade Mills, pp. 1-40
The Racial Contract, Charles Wade Mills, pp. 41-90
The Racial Contract, Charles Wade Mills, pp. 91-end
Film, TBA
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture,
Kwame Anthony Appiah, pp. 3-72
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture,
Kwame Anthony Appiah, pp. 73-136
In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture,
Kwame Anthony Appiah, pp. 137-192
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the
1990s, Michael Omi and Howard Winant, pp. vii-52
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the
1990s, Michael Omi and Howard Winant, pp. 53-94
Racial Formation in the United States: From the 1960s to the
1990s, Michael Omi and Howard Winant, pp. 95-160
Women and Girls in Georgia conference, please try to attend!
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of
Whiteness, Ruth Frankenberg, pp. 1-70
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of
Whiteness, Ruth Frankenberg, pp. 71-136
White Women, Race Matters: The Social Construction of
Whiteness, Ruth Frankenberg, pp. 137-244
“Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in
Silence and Word,” Berel Lang
“Sartre on American Racism,” Julien Murphy; “Sartrean Bad Faith
and Antiblack Racism,” Lewis R. Gordon
“Beauvoir and the Problem of Racism,” Margaret A.
Simons: "Dewey's Philosophical Approach to Racial Prejudice,”
Gregory Fernando Pappas
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Vine Deloria Jr., pp. ix-
66
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Vine Deloria Jr., pp. TBA
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Vine Deloria Jr., pp. TBA
God Is Red: A Native View of Religion, Vine Deloria Jr., pp. TBA
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Linda Martín
Alcoff, Pt. 1
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Linda Martín
Alcoff, Pt. 2
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Linda Martín
Alcoff, Pt. 3
Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self, Linda Martín
Alcoff, Pt. 4 |