Race as phenomena : between phenomenology and philosophy of race / edited by Emily S. Lee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lee, Emily S., 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Ethnicity--Philosophy.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

xvii, 233 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Lanham, Maryland : Rowman & Littlefield, [2019]

Summary:

This book introduces and explores the relation between race and phenomenology through varied African American, Latina, Asian American, and White American perspectives. Phenomenology is best known as a descriptive endeavor to more accurately describe our experience of the world. These essays examine the ways in which this relation between phenomenology and race acts as a site of racial meaning. 0Philosophy of race conceives race as a social construction. Because of the sedimentation of racial meaning into the very structure and practices of society, the socially constructed meanings about features of the body are mistaken as natural. Hence although racial meaning is theoretically recognized as socially constructed, during an every-day interaction, racial meaning is mistaken as inevitable and natural. Phenomenology facilitates precisely understanding this confusion of a social construction as natural. Race is a phenomenon. 0Ideal for advanced students in phenomenology and philosophy of race, this volume pushes phenomenological method forward by exploring its relation to questions within philosophy of race.

Contents:

1 A People Yet to Come; "People of Color" Reconsidered p. 1 / Boram Jeong

2 Multiplicitous Selves: Being-between-Worlds and Being-in-Worlds p. 15 / Mariana Ortega

3 The Intersections of Race, Gender, and Criminality: A Black Woman's Phenomenological Account p. 35 / Shaeeda A. Mensah

4 The Veil, Race, and Appearance: A Political Phenomenology p. 55 / Hourya Bentouhami

5 Challenging Conceptions of the "Normal" Subject in Phenomenology p. 69 / Christine Wieseler

6 Social Psychology, Phenomenology, and the Indeterminate Content of Unreflective Racial Bias p. 87 / Alex Madva

7 A Phenomenology of Seeing and Affect in a Polarized Climate p. 107 / Emily S. Lee

8 Race Consciousness Phenomenologically Understood p. 125 / Lewis R. Gordon

9 The Black Body: A Phenomenology of Being Stopped p. 143 / George Yancy

10 The Phenomenology of White Identity p. 175 / Linda Martin Alcoff

11 Seeing Like a Cop: A Critical Phenomenology of Whiteness as Property p. 189 / Lisa Guenther

12 Becoming White: White Children and the Erasure of Black Suffering p. 207 / Shannon Sullivan.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Race as phenomena

ISBN:

9781786605368

1786605368

9781786605375

1786605376

OCLC:

1084679055