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This book explores the experiences and philosophical work product of mixed race philosophers, as well as possible links between the two. Some books address mixed-race identity, and some anthologies focus on mixed-race identity, but this is the first anthology on the philosophy of mixed-race, and the first anthology by mixed-race philosophers.
List of contents
Foreword, by Linda Martín Alcoff
Editor's Introduction: Toward a Mixed Race Theory, by Tina Fernandes Botts
Part 1: Mixed Race Political Theory
Chapter 1: Responsible Multiracial Politics, with a new postscript, by Ronald Robles Sundstrom
Chapter 2: Mixed Race Identity in Britain: Finding Our Roots in the Post Racial Era, by Gabriella Beckles-Raymond
Part 2: Mixed Race Metaphilosophy
Chapter 3: Through the Looking Glass: What Philosophy Looks Like from the Inside When You're Not Quite There, by Marina Oshana
Chapter 4: Being and Not Being, Knowing and Not Knowing, by Jennifer Lisa Vest
Chapter 5: A Mixed Race (Philosophical) Experience, by Tina Fernandes Botts
Part 3: Mixed Race Ontology
Chapter 6: The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race, by Naomi Zack
Chapter 7: On Being Mixed, by Linda Martín Alcoff
Chapter 8: Race and Ethnic Identity? by J.L.A. Garcia
Part 4: Mixed Race and Major Figures
Chapter 9: Through a Glass, Darkly: A Mixed-Race Du Bois, by Celena Simpson
Chapter 10: German Chocolate: Why Philosophy is So Personal, by Timothy J. Golden
Part 5: Mixed Race Ethics
Chapter 11: Who is Afraid of Racial and Ethnic Self-Cleansing? In Defense of the Virtuous Cosmopolitan, by Jason D. Hill
Afterword, by Naomi Zack
Epilogue, by Tina Fernandes Botts
About the author
Edited by Tina Fernandes Botts - Contributions by Linda Martín Alcoff; Ronald Robles Sundstrom; Gabriella Beckles-Raymond; Marina A.L. Oshana; Jennifer Lisa Vest; Tina Fernandes Botts; Naomi Zack; J. L. A. Garcia; Celena Simpson; Timothy J. Golden and Jas
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This book explores the experiences and philosophical work product of mixed race philosophers, as well as possible links between the two. Some books address mixed-race identity, and some anthologies focus on mixed-race identity, but this is the first anthology on the philosophy of mixed-race, and the first anthology by mixed-race philosophers.
