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<p><STRONG></STRONG><STRONG><EM>On Race and Philosophy</EM></STRONG> 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.</p><h3>Library Journal</h3><p>A leader in the black philosophy movement, Outlaw (philosophy, Fisk) doesn't want the concept of raceor races themselvesto disappear. Indeed, he wants to make the idea of race respectable and to define races in terms of a combination of biological inheritances and cultural elements embodying values. Arguing that we need an African-oriented philosophy and a social science aimed at facilitating the articulation of

Author

Lucius T. Outlaw (Jr.)

Publisher

New York: Routledge

Published

1996

Language

EN

ISBN

9780415915359

Subjects

Sociology, History, Philosophy