CFP: Philosophy of Race: Introductory Readings, 2nd Call for Abstracts

Submission deadline: July 15, 2014

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2nd Call for Abstracts for Philosophy of Race: Introductory Readings Due by July 15, 2014

A first call for abstracts yielded these abstract/outline submissions presented below in this draft table of contents. A second call for abstracts is now open, until July 15th, for contributors who would like to submit further abstracts & outlines for consideration. These submissions can be new issues and topics or augment, extend, contrast with or challenge or contrast with these submissions below. Abstract(s) should be sent to [email protected] and [email protected]. Please see below for more information about the nature and plans for this collection of readings.

­Philosophy Of Race

Introductory Readings

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DRAFT TABLE OF CONTENTS, 6/11/14: subject to change

I.   THE EXISTENCE OF RACE  

1.      How Did This Whole Race Thing Get Started? 

2.      Emphasizing the “Social” in Social Construction: Racial Identification as a Group Project 

3.      Race as an Existential Process 

4.      The Black-White Binary 

5.      How Jews and Muslims Became Races: A Genealogy of Antisemitism and Islamophobia.  

6.      The Mismeasurement of Race.  

7.      Race Difference in Athletics: A Critical Assessment of Wide-spread Biases.  

II. RACIAL EXPERIENCE & IDENTITY  

8.      Cultural Code-Switching: What role does race play? 

9.      What’s it Like Being Arab? The Quandary of Race and Identity 

10.  Racial Identity in the Hispanic and Latino Community 

11.  Black Bodies, White Selves, and Raced Norms 

12.  White Privilege and a Call for Active Resistance 

III. RACISM, DISCRIMINATION AND PREFERENCE

13.  Peeling Apart the Layers - A Typology and Genealogy of Xenophobia 

14.  Two Conceptions of Racism  

15.  What’s Race Got to Do with It? A Defense of Racialized Sexual Desire.  

16.  Genetic Racism 

IV.  RACE AND RESPONSIBILITY  

17.  Race, Racial Stereotypes, and Racial Slurs 

18.  Race and Value 

19.  A Theory of Racial Justice: The Beginnings of an Outline.  

20.  Is Racial Profiling Ever Justified? 

21.  The Ethics and Efficacy of Affirmative Action 

22.  The Ambiguity and Illusion of Racial Integration 

23.  Color Me Black: Philosophical Problems with Race Ideologies and the Blackening of the Bible   

24.  The Past is Present: A Moral Argument for Racial Reparations 

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