Achieving Our Humanity

The Idea of the Postracial Future
1. Auflage 2001
ISBN: 978-0-415-92940-0
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)

Buch, Englisch, 270 Seiten, Format (B × H): 159 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 526 g

Achieving Our Humanity explores a 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Eze, Emmanuel C

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gewalt und Diskriminierung: Soziale Aspekte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; Acknowledgments; PART I Arguing with the Past; 1. The Modern Invention of Race; 2. Hume, Race, and Reason; 3. Race: A Transcendental?; Part II This Past Must Address its Future; 4. Négritude: Der humanismus der anderen Menschen; 5. Negritude and Modern African Philosophy: Black Is, Black Ain't; 6. Achieving our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future; Postscript; Bibliography; Index

Über Autor(innen)

Emmanuel C. Eze is Associate Professor of Philosophy at DePaul University. He is the editor of Race and Enlightenment: A Reader, African Philosophy: An Anthology (1997), and Postcolonial African Philosophy: A Critical Reader (1998).