On race and philosophy
By: Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.).
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 232
Subjects: African American philosophy.; Race relations -- Philosophy.; Ethnicity -- Philosophy.; United States -- Race relations -- Philosophy.
Description: On Race and Philosophy is a collection of essays written and published across the last twenty years, which focus on matters of race, philosophy, and social and political life in the West, in particular in the US. These important writings trace the author's continuing efforts not only to confront racism, especially within philosophy, but, more importantly, to work out viable conceptions of raciality and ethnicity that are empirically sound while avoiding chauvinism and invidious ethnocentrism. The hope is that such conceptions will assist efforts to fashion a nation-state in which racial and ethnic cultures and identities are recognized and nurtured contributions to a more just and stable democracy.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [205]-230) and index.