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Achieving our humanity : the idea of the postracial future / Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Eze, Emmanuel Chukwudi.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Race relations.
- Racism.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 250 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2001.
- Summary:
- Does "race" make us human? Drawing upon the experience of being racialized as "black" for the first time while living in the United States and England, Nigerian-born Emmanuel Eze argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity. If we can achieve, or seriously commit to, a goal of equality for all, Eze believes that it is possible for humankind to overcome its racial antagonisms and move toward a future in which race has little significance. Achieving Our Humanity explores this postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic, and political experiences of race in the past -- and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future.
- Contents:
- I. Arguing with the Past
- 1. The Modern Invention of Race 3
- 2. Hume, Race, and Reason 51
- 3. Race: A Transcendental? 77
- II. This Past Must Address Its Future
- 4. Negritude: Der Humanismus der Anderen Menschen 115
- 5. Negritude and Modern Africana Philosophy: Black Is, Black Ain't 147
- 6. Achieving Our Humanity 177
- Postscript: Transcending Race 215.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [227]-239) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0415929407
- 0415929415
- OCLC:
- 45620895
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