Philosophical analysis and the problem of defining racism

Philosophia Africana

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 1-16

  Headley, Clevis ^a  

^a FLORIDA ATLANTIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 58449097141     PISSN: 15398250     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5840/philafricana2006917     Document Type: Review

References (21)

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4. Lewis Gordon, Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Atlantic Highlands, NJ: Humanities, 1995), 135. Henceforth cited as BAR
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6. See Noel Ignatiev, How the Irish Became White (New York: Routledge, 1995)
7. David Roediger, Towards the Abolition of Whiteness (New York: Verso, 1995)
8. For more on this issue, see Anthony Marx, Making Race and Nation: A Comparison of the United States, South Africa, and Brazil (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998)
9. H. L. Hart, The Concept of Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1961), 120
10. See Douglas Massey and Nancy Denton, American Apartheid: Segregation and the Making of the Underclass (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1993)
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12. For more on this issue, see David Goldberg, Anatomy of Racism (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1990)
13. and Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning (Maiden, MA: Blackwell Publishers, Inc., 1993)
14. James McKee, Sociology and the Race Problem: The Failure of a Perspective (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1993)
15. Herbert Blumer, "Reflections on a Theory of Race Relations," in Race Relations in World Perspective, ed. Andrew Lind (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 1955), 12. Henceforth cited as RTRR
16. Robert Blauner, Racial Oppression in America (New York: Harper and Row, 1972), 10
17. George Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment in Whiteness: How White People Profit From Identity Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998)
18. Lipsitz, The Possessive Investment, vii-viii
19. Charles W. Mills, The Racial Contract (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997)
20. George Dickie, Art and Aesthetics: An Institutional Analysis (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1974)
21. Arthur Danto, "The Artworld," Journal of Philosophy 61 (1964): 571-84