Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future

ISBN-13: 9780415929400 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 270 str.

Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze

Opis

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 post-racial future through a philosophical analysis.

Recenzje

"A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House--Paul Gilroy, Yale University."
"...intriguing ... illuminating... sophisticated and cogent." -- Frank M. Kirkland, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
"A better and more provocative, and more interesting book than anything that has been published since Anthony Appiah's In My Father's House." -- Paul Gilroy, Yale University

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).