ISBN:
9780231537728
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (291 pages)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Jaksic, Iván Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity : Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics
DDC:
305.868/073
Keywords:
Ethnicity--Philosophy
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Gracia, Jorge J. E.--Philosophy
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Gracia, Jorge J. E.--Political and social views
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Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity
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Hispanic Americans--Race identity
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Latin Americans--Ethnic identity
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Latin Americans--Race identity
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Online-Publikation
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Online-Publikation
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Aufsatzsammlung
Abstract:
The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity in the United States. Their discussion joins two distinct traditions: the philosophy of race begun by African Americans in the nineteenth century, and the search for an understanding of identity initiated by Latin American philosophers in the sixteenth century. Participants include Linda M. Alcoff, K. Anthony Appiah, Richard J. Bernstein, Lawrence Blum, Robert Gooding-Williams, Eduardo Mendieta, and Lucius T. Outlaw Jr., and their dialogue reflects the analytic, Aristotelian, Continental, literary, Marxist, and pragmatic schools of thought. These intellectuals start with the philosophy of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States and then move to the philosophy of African Americans and Anglo Americans in the United States and the philosophy of Latin Americans in Latin America. Gracia and his interlocutors discuss the nature of race and ethnicity and their relation to nationality, linguistic rights, matters of identity, and Affirmative Action, binding the concepts of race and ethnicity together in ways that open new paths of inquiry. Gracia's familial-historical theory of ethnic and Hispanic/Latino identity operates at the center of each of these discussions, providing vivid access to the philosopher's provocative arguments while adding unique depth to issues that each of us struggles to understand
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