"Racial" nominalism

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 193-210

  Sundstrom, Ronald R ^a  

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DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00133     Document Type: Article

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1. This paper is drawn from the third chapter of my dissertation, Rending the Veil: A Critical Look at the Ontology and Conservation of "Race" (University of Minnesota, 1999).
2. Johann Gottfied von Herder, Ideen zur Philosophie der Geschichte der Menscheit [Reflections on the Philosophy of the History of Mankind], trans. Frank E. Manuel (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1968), 7.
3. Cedric Dover, "The Racial Philosophy of Johann Herder", British Journal of Sociology 3(1952):124-33;
4. one that argues the contrary is Royal Schmidt, "Cultural Nationalism in Herder", Journal of the History of Ideas 17(1956):407-17.
5. Ashley Montagu, Man's Most Dangerous Myth: The Fallacy of Race (Cleveland: World Publishing Company, 1964), 23;
6. See, for example, Montagu, Man's Most Dangerous Myth and The Concept of Race (New York: Collier Books, 1964).
7. Anthony Appiah, "The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race", in "Race", Writing and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 36.
8. See Luca Cavalli-Sforza, Paolo Menozzi, and Alberto Piazza, The History and Geography of Human Genes (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1994), for data and a discussion on why "race" is not a real biological category.
9. Yehudi Webster, The Racialization of America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1992), 2.
10. Naomi Zack, Race and Mixed Race (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993), 4.
11. Naomi Zack, "An Autobiographical View of Mixed Race and Deracination", American Philosophical Association Newsletter 91, no. 1(Spring 1992):6-10;
12. "On Being and Not-Being Black and Jewish", in The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier, ed. Maria P. P. Root (Thousand Oaks, Calif.: Sage, 1996): 140-51;
13. Race and Mixed Race;
14. and "Life after Race", in American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity, ed. Naomi Zack (Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 1995): 297-307.
15. Zack, Race and Mixed Race, 9.
16. She makes the same claim in "Life after Race" and "The Philosophic Meaning of Race", in Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay, ed. Naomi Zack (New York: Routledge, 1997): 29-44.
17. See Zack, "Life after Race"
18. and "The Philosophic Meaning of Race."
19. Anthony Appiah, "Race, Culture, Identity: Misunderstood Connections", in Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, ed. K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutman (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1996), 76-80.
20. For Ian Hacking's dynamic nominalism, see his "A Tradition of Natural Kinds", Philosophical Studies 61(1991):122-23;
21. "Making up People", in Reconstructing Individualism, ed. Thomas C. Heller, Morton Sosna, and David E. Wellberg (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1986): 222-37;
22. and "World-Making by Kind-Making: Child Abuse for Example", in How Classification Works: Nelson Goodman among the Social Sciences, ed. Mary Douglass and David Hull (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1992): 180-238.
23. For Appiah's use of "racialism", see chapter 2 of his In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993).
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25. See Appiah, "Race, Culture, Identity", 75.
26. See Appiah, "The Uncompleted Argument" and In My Father's House, chap. 2.
27. For more on the referential theory of meaning, see Saul Kripke, Naming and Necessity (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1980).
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29. and Philip Kitcher, "Species", in Philosophy of Science 51(1984):309-33.
30. Kitcher, "Species", 317.
31. See Brent Mishler and Michael Donoghue, "Species Concepts: A Case for Pluralism", in Conceptual Issues in Evolutionary Biology (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1994), 217-32.
32. See Philip Kitcher, "Genes", British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 33(1982):337-59.
33. See John Dupré, The Disorder of Things: Metaphysical Foundations of the Disunity of Science (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993)
34. See his "Human Kinds", in The Latest on the Best: Essays on Evolution and Optimality, ed. John Dupré (Cambridge: MIT Press, 1987), 327-48
35. See Hacking, "A Tradition of Natural Kinds."
36. Hacking cites J. S. Mill, A System of Logic, in Collected Works of John Stuart Mill, ed. J. M. Robson (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), vol. 7, 123.
37. Hacking, "Five Parables", in Ideas in Context: Philosophy in History (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 122.
38. Hacking, "World-Making by Kind-Making", 190.
39. Hacking, "Making up People", 228.
40. and "World-Making by Kind-Making", 189-92.
41. See, for example, Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993)
42. and Lucius Outlaw, On Race and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996).
43. See Dinesh D'Souza, "The One-Drop-of-Blood Rule", Forbes 158, no. 13(December 2, 1996):48;
44. Shelby Steele, The Content of Our Character (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990);
45. Thomas Sowell, Ethnic America (New York: Basic Books, 1981);
46. and George Will, "Melding in America", Washington Post (October 5, 1997), p. 7.
47. see Bernard Boxill, Blacks and Social Justice (Totowa, N. J.: Rowman and Littlefield, 1985).
48. Webster, Racialization of America, 2.
49. John Searle, in The Construction of Social Reality (New York: Free Press, 1981)
50. Charles Mills, "But What Are You Really? The Metaphysics of Race", in Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race, ed. Charles Mills (Ithaca, N. Y.: Cornell University Press, 1998), 46.
51. See Root, How to Divide the World.
52. See Dupré, "Natural Kinds and Biological Taxa, "
53. and "Genes."
54. David Ruben, "Realism in the Social Sciences", in Dismantling Truth, ed. Hilary Lawson and Lisa Appignanesi (London: Wedenfeld & Nicholson, 1989), 58-75
55. Martin Luther King, Jr., "Letter from a Birmingham Jail", in his Why We Can't Wait (New York: New American Library, 1963), 76-95
56. and "Black Power", in his Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (Boston: Beacon Press, 1967), 32-54.
57. See Zack, Race and Mixed-Race
58. see "Laughing to Keep from Crying: Resisting the American 'Racial' Politic through Irony", Tympanum 4(July 2000):1-35.