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Philosophy students and staff are warmly invited to join the Race and Philosophy Reading Group. We will once again meet on Teams on Friday afternoons, 4-5.15 pm, starting on 15 October 2021. The readings will address questions about race from a variety of perspectives, taking intersectionality - the intersections of race with other categories and concerns - as a theme. Philosophical research and thinking on race includes work in ontology, epistemology, phenomenology, existentialism, ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics and the history of philosophy. Race is also an important focus of concern for activism, education, and the practice of philosophy. We hope the readings will be jumping-off points for discussion of issues, events, experiences, and projects of significance to participants.

The group is intended to be a serious but friendly and supportive gathering. Please show respect for and courtesy toward participants. It is helpful to have a volunteer or two each week to (1) give a very brief introduction to the reading, raising a topic or question for discussion, and (2) moderate the session (to keep track of who has a comment, to make sure people are heard, and so forth). If you would like to have one of those roles in a given week, please contact Eileen John to volunteer (eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk).

Autumn Term 2021

Organised in collaboration with 糖心TV MAP.

Week 2: Friday 15 October 2021 - In Memory of Charles Mills (1951-2021) and in celebration of Black History Month: Charles Mills,

Week 4: Friday 29 October 2021 - Charles Mills,

Week 6: Friday 12 November 2021 - , with an

Week 8: Friday 26 November 2021 - Robin Zheng,  

For more information (and if you need help joining the Team), contact Eileen John (eileen.john@warwick.ac.uk).

Past meetings - Spring Term 2021

Week 1

Michael O. Hardimon (2017). Rethinking Race: The Case for Deflationary Realism. Harvard University Press.

, pp. 1-11:

and

Week 2 - revised - see also Team chat for further suggestions

Introducers: Luke Valentine Leong (Appiah and Goldberg) and Jude Folorunso (Alpert)

Kwame Anthony Appiah (1985). '', Critical Inquiry 12(1): 21-37.

David Theo Goldberg (1993). Chapters 4 and 5, 'The Masks of Race' and 'Racist Exclusions' in . Blackwell.

and

[Further reading:

K. A. Appiah (2015). 鈥樷��, in Color Conscious, eds. K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann. Princeton UP, pp. 30–105.

Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. (2018). '', in Racism and Philosophy, eds. Susan Babbitt and Sue Campbell (Cornell UP), pp. 50-76.

Also recommended: Outlaw's Preface (xi-xxxi - about his education) to On Race and Philosophy (New York: Routledge, 1996). This should be available electronically through the library very soon.]

Week 3 - Epistemology

Introducers: Judith Akua Arthur (Mills) and Nana Adwoa Obeng (Hill Collins)

Charles Mills (2018 [1988]). 鈥樷��, in Blackness Visible Cornell UP, pp. 21-40.

Patricia Hill Collins (2000 [1990]). Ch. 11 '', in Black Feminist Thought: Knowledge, Consciousness, and the Politics of Empowerment. Routledge. pp. 251-71.

[Further reading:

Kristie Dotson (2015), 鈥樷��, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Volume 38, Issue 13: 2322-2328.

Sandra Harding (2016 [1991]), : Thinking from Women's Lives. Cornell UP. See especially sections II on Epistemology and III on 鈥極thers鈥� (Chs. 8 and 11).]

Week 4 - The practice of philosophy

Moderator: Judith Akua Arthur

Introducers: Luke Valentine Leong (Osei), David Bather Woods (Flikschuh), Zoe Fidel (Dotson)

Joseph Osei (2020). '', in Handbook of African Philosophy of Difference, ed. Elvis Imafidon. Springer.

Katrin Flikschuh (2018). '', Aristotelian Society Supplementary Volume, Volume 92, Issue 1, pp. 91–110. [Flikschuh responds to a Charles Mills paper, , in same issue.]

Kristie Dotson (2012). '', Comparative Philosophy: Vol. 3 : Iss. 1 , Article 5.

Week 5 - Race, phenomenology and life-worlds

Introducers: Luke Valentine Leong (Alcoff) and Pratham Mehrotra and Eileen John (Outlaw)

Linda Mart铆n Alcoff (2006). Ch. 7 , in Visible Identities: Race, Gender, and the Self. Oxford UP.

Lucius T. Outlaw, Jr. (1996). (Routledge): the Introduction and Ch. 7; for a selection from those chapters, focus on pp. 8-21 in the Intro and pp. 170-82 in Ch. 7. [The autobiographical preface in this book is excellent too, but it doesn't seem to show up in the e-edition. Let EJ know if you find it.]

Week 6 - Race, masks, sexuality, poetry and more!

Carolyn Dinshaw, '', in The Middle Ages in the Modern World: Twenty-first century perspectives, eds.Bettina Bildhauer and Chris Jones. The British Academy, Oxford UP, 2017.

Will Harris, Three poems from Rendang. Granta, 2020.

Week 7 - Race and aesthetics: combined session with CineMAP

Organisers: Sailee Khurjekar and Chris Earley

Readings:

Paul Gilroy, 鈥淚t ain鈥檛 where you鈥檙e from, it鈥檚 where you鈥檙e at鈥�, of Small Acts (1993)

Paul Taylor, 鈥淏eauty to Set the World Right: The Politics of Black Aesthetics鈥�, of Black is Beautiful (2016)

Dayna Francis, (2020)

Dayna Francis鈥檚 poem was published as part of the official Black History Month UK campaign in 2020. Francis explores themes of stereotyping, inclusion and what it means to be Black and British, along with its implications.

Viewing:

Steve McQueen, (2020)

Lovers Rock is short romantic drama film from British filmmaker Steve McQueen. It is a part of his Small Axe anthology series, which can be accessed on BBC iPlayer. Set in 1980, it centres around young black people finding romance and freedom at London house parties, in the sound of a reggae genre called lovers rock.

Further Readings:

• Stuart Hall, (1996)
• Victoria Arana and Lauri Ramey, of Black British Writing(2004)

Further Viewing:

You may want to check out the rest of Steve McQueen鈥檚 series, which provides other contrasting views on the same sets of issues.

Week 8 - Biopolitics, sexuality and racism

Daniele Lorenzini is organising the readings, drawing on the following texts - page details to come:

Further readings:

Michel Foucault, "Society Must Be Defended": Lectures at the Coll猫ge de France, 1975-1976

Daniele Lorenzini, "The Emergence of Desire", Critical Inquiry 45 (2019)

Week 9 - Race and education

Readings:

Darren Chetty, '"Racism as Reasonableness": Philosophy for Children and the Gated Community of Inquiry'. Ethics and Education 13(1), 2018: 39-54.

Jack Bicker, 'Teacher-led codeswitching: Adorno, race, contradiction, and the nature of autonomy'. Ethics and Education 13(1), 2018: 73-85.

Further readings:

Ben Kotzee, 'Education and epistemic injustice', in , eds. James Kidd, Jos茅 Medina and Gaile Pohlhaus. London: Routledge, 2017. pp. 324-35. [other essays in this volume of interest as well]

See the other essays in the 13(1) issue of Ethics and Education on Critical Philosophy of Race and Education.

Week 10 - Race, responsibility, activism

Readings:

Lee McBride, '', in The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race, ed. Naomi Zack, 2017.

Robin Zheng, ''. Ethical Theory and Moral Practice 21( 4), 2018: 869-85.

Further readings:

Patricia Hill Collins, , Temple UP, 2013.

Iris Marion Young, Ch. 7 '', in Responsibility for Justice, Oxford UP, 2011.

Further resources

, eds. Tommy Lott and Julie Ward. Blackwell, 2002.

, eds. Robert Bernasconi and Sybol Cook. Indiana UP, 2003.

, ed. Naomi Zack. Oxford UP, 2017.

Race and the Enlightenment: a Reader, ed. Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze. Blackwell,1997. (Library: HT1507.R33).

A broader reading list is being compiled - suggestions are welcome.

Week 7 CineMAP: