Is racism in the "heart"?

Journal of Social Philosophy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 411-420

  Shelby, Tommie ^a  

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EID: 34247439282     PISSN: 00472786     EISSN: 14679833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0047-2786.00150     Document Type: Article

References (27)

1. J. L. A. Garcia, "The Heart of Racism", Journal of Social Philosophy 27(1996):5-45;
2. "Current Conceptions of Racism", Journal of Social Philosophy 28(1997):5-42;
3. and "Philosophical Analysis and the Moral Concept of Racism", Philosophy & Social Criticism 25(1999):1-32.
4. Garcia, "The Heart of Racism", 6.
5. See also Garcia, "Current Conceptions of Racism", 6;
6. and "Philosophical Analysis and the Moral Concept of Racism", 7.
7. "Thick concepts", to use Bernard Williams's characterization, are concepts whose application is simultaneously "world-guided and action-guiding"; that is, they have both descriptive and evaluative content. Bernard Williams, Ethics and the Limits of Philosophy (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1985), 141.
8. Garcia, "Philosophical Analysis and the Moral Concept of Racism", 5.
9. Racia, "The Heart of Racism", 9.
10. Here I mean "ideology" to be understood in the Marxist sense. Of course, others have defended the view that racism is an ideology. See, for example, Pierre L. van den Berghe, Race and Racism: A Comparative Perspective, 2nd ed. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978);
11. John Gabriel and Gideon Ben-Tovim, "Marxism and the Concept of Racism", Economy and Society 7(1978):118-54;
12. Leo Kuper, Race, Class, and Power: Ideology and Revolutionary Change in Plural Societies (London: Aldine Publishing Company, 1975);
13. Stuart Hall, "Race, Articulation and Societies Structured in Dominance", in Sociological Theories: Race and Colonialism (Paris: UNESCO, 1980), 305-45;
14. Robert Miles, Racism (London: Routledge, 1989);
15. Kwame Anthony Appiah, "Racisms", in Anatomy of Racism, ed. David Theo Goldberg (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990), 3-17;
16. Barbara J. Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America", New Left Review (1990): 95-118;
17. and Colette Guillaumin, Racism, Sexism, Power, and Ideology (London: Routledge, 1995). 11
18. See Edna Bonacich, "Advanced Capitalism and Black/White Race Relations in the United States: A Split Labor Market Interpretation", American Sociological Review 41(1976):34-51.
19. Also see David R. Roediger, The Wages of Whiteness: Race and the Making of the American Working Class (London: Verso, 1991).
20. See e.g., David O. Sears, "Symbolic Racism", in Eliminating Racism: Profiles in Controversy, ed. Phyllis A. Katz and Dalmas A. Taylor (New York: Plenum Press, 1988), 53-84;
21. Andrew Hacker, Two Nations: Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal (New York: Ballantine Books, 1992);
22. Douglas S. Massey and Nancy A. Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993);
23. Howard Schuman, Charlotte Steeh, Lawrence Bobo, and Maria Krysan, Racial Attitudes in America: Trends and Interpretations (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1997);
24. and Robert M. Entman and Andrew Rojecki, The Black Image in the White Mind: Media and Race in America (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
25. Fields, "Slavery, Race and Ideology in the United States of America", 99.
26. Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America, ed. J. P. Mayer and trans. George Lawrence (New York: HarperPerennial, 1969), 341.
27. Appiah, "Racisms", 5.