I. Getting a Handle On a Concept: The Metaphysics of Race?
M 1/14: Course introduction
W 1/16: Robin Andreasen, “The Cladistic Race Concept: A Defense” in Biology & Philosophy 19.3 (pp. 425–442) – [Neo-Biological Racial Realism]
F 1/18: Massimo Pigliucci, “What Are We To Make Of the Concept Of Race? Thoughts of a Philosopher Scientist” in Studies in History and Philosophy of Biological and Biomedical Sciences 44.3 (pp. 272–277)
M 1/21: NO CLASS | MLK DAY
W 1/23: Joshua Glasgow and Jonathan Woodward, “Basic Racial Realism” in Journal of the American Philosophical Association 1.3 (pp. 449–466) – [Basic Racial Realism]
F 1/25: Michael O. Hardimon, “The Ordinary Concept of Race” in Philosophy and Social Criticism 40.1 (pp. 69–90)
M 1/28: Kwame Anthony Appiah, “How To Decide If Races Exist” in Proceedings of the Aristotelian Society 106 (pp. 365–382) – [Racial Anti-Realism]
W 1/30: Michael Root, “How We Divide the World” in Philosophy of Science 67.3, Supplement (pp. S628–S639) – [Social Constructivist Racial Realism]
F 2/1: Charles Mills, “But What Are You, Really? The Metaphysics of Race” in Blackness Visible (pp. 41–66)
M 2/4: Ron Mallon, “Race: Normative, Not Meta-physical or Semantic” Ethics 116.3 (pp. 525–51) – [Racial Normativism]
W 2/6: Richard Delgado & Jean Stefancic, “Hallmark Critical Race Theory Themes” in Critical Race Theory (pp. 19–43) – [Critical Race Theory]
F 2/8: Patricia Hill Collins, “The Social Construction of Black Feminist Thought” in Signs 14.4 (pp. 745–773) – [Black Feminist Thought]
M 2/11: Ofelia Schutte, “Negotiating Latina Identities” in Latin American Philosophy for the 21stCentury: The Human Condition, Values, and the Search for Identity (pp. 337-350) – [Latinx Thought]
II. Don’t Forget History
W 2/13: Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze, “The Modern Invention of Race” in Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future (pp. 3–43) – [Classical Biological Racial Realism]
F 2/15: Michael Omi & Howard Winant, “Racial Formation in the United States” in The Idea of Race (pp. 181–212)
M 2/18: Karen E. Fields & Barbara Fields, “Slavery, Race, and Ideology in the United States of America” in Racecraft (pp. 111–148)
W 2/20: Cornel West, “A Genealogy of Modern Racism” in Prophesy Deliverance! (pp. 47–65)
F 2/22: Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., “Philosophy, African-Americans, and the Unfinished American Revolution” in On Race and Philosophy (pp. 33–50)
III. An Important Debate: Conserve/Eliminate
M 2/25: W.E.B. Du Bois, “The Conservation of the Races” and “Of Our Spiritual Strivings” in The Souls of Black Folk (pp. 179–188, 7–14)
W 2/27: Kwame Anthony Appiah, “The Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Illusion of Race” in The Idea of Race (pp. 118–135)
F 3/1: Paul C. Taylor, “Appiah’s Uncompleted Argument: Du Bois and the Reality of Race” in Social Theory and Practice 26.1 (pp. 103–128)
M 3/4: Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr., “Conserve Races? In Defense of W.E.B. Du Bois” in Critical Social Theory in the Interests of Black Folks (pp. 139–160)
W 3/6: Robert Gooding-Williams, “Outlaw, Appiah, and Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races’,” in W.E.B. Du Bois on Race and Culture (pp. 39–56)
F 3/8: David Miguel Gray, “Racial Norms: A Reinterpretation of Du Bois’ ‘The Conservation of Races’” in The Southern Journal of Philosophy (pp. 465–487)
M 3/11 – F 3/15: NO CLASS | SPRING BREAK
M 3/18: Chike Jeffers, “The Cultural Theory of Race: Yet Another Look at Du Bois’s ‘The Conservation of Races’,” Ethics 123.3 (pp. 403–426)
W 3/20: Paul C. Taylor, “Bare Ontology and Social Death” in Philosophical Papers42.3 (pp. 371–391)
IV. Racism
F 3/22: Kwame Anthony Appiah, “Racisms” in Anatomy of Racism (pp. 3-17)
M 3/25: J.L.A. Garcia, “The Heart of Racism” in Journal of Social Philosophy 27.1 (pp. 5–46)
W 3/27: Tommie Shelby, “Is Racism ‘In the Heart’?” in Journal of Social Philosophy 33.3 (pp. 411–420)
F 3/29: David Theo Goldberg, “The Social Formation of Racist Discourse” in Anatomy of Racism (pp. 295–318)
M 4/1: Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, “A Culture of Racism” in From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (pp. 21–50)
W 4/3: Kwame Ture & Charles Hamilton, “White Power: The Colonial Situation” Black Power: The Politics of Liberation (pp. 2–32)
F 4/5: Frantz Fanon, “Lived Experience of the Black Man” in Black Skin, White Masks (pp. 89–119)
M 4/8: Maria Lugones,“Hablando Cara a Cara/Speaking Face to Face: An Exploration of Ethnocentric Racism” in Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition Against Multiple Oppressions (pp. 41-50)
V. Ethics & Politics
W 4/10: Paul C. Taylor, “Taking Postracialism Seriously: From Movement Mythology to Racial Formation” in Du Bois Review 11.1 (pp. 9–25)
F 4/12: Kathryn T. Gines, “A Critique of Postracialism: Conserving Race and Complicating Blackness Beyond the Black-white Binary” in Du Bois Review 11.1 (pp. 75–86)
M 4/15: Alfred Frankowski, “The Violence of Post-Racial Memory and the Political Sense of Mourning” in Contemporary Aesthetics 11 (n.p.)
W 4/17: Angela Davis, “Women and Capitalism: Dialectics of Oppression and Liberation” in The Black Feminist Reader (pp. 146–182)
F 4/19: Frank B. Wilderson, “Introduction: Unspeakable Ethics” in Red, White, Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (pp. 1–32)
M 4/22: Frank B. Wilderson, “The Ruse of Analogy” in Red, White, Black: Cinema and the Structure of U.S. Antagonisms (pp. 35–53)
W 4/24: Asad Haider, “Introduction,” “Identity Politics,” and “Contradictions Among the People” in Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump(pp. 1–41)
F 4/26: Asad Haider, “Racial Ideology” and “Passing” in Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (pp. 42–82)
M 4/29: Asad Haider, “Law and Order” and “Universality” in Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age ofTrump (pp. 83–114)