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Look, a Negro!: Philosophical Essays on Race, Culture, and Politics
Look a Negro Philosophical Essays on Race Culture and Politics Author:Robert Gooding-Williams Providing a rich well of insight into the interplay of race, culture and democracy, this text explores the cultural and political significance of racial identity and racial ideology in post-segregation America. The essays engage and connect with themes that have centrally occupied recent discussions of race and racial identity, including: the wo... more »rkings of racial ideology (including the interplay of gender and sexuality in the articulation of racial ideology); the viability of social constructionist theories of race; the significance of Afrocentrism and multiculturalism for democracy; the place of black identity in the imagination and articulation of America's inheritance of philosophy; the conceptualization of African American politics in post-segregation America. Providing an interdisciplinary perspective on the representation of race from the combined vantage points of philosophy, political science, and cultural studies, the book will be of great interest to philosophers, political theorists and critical race theorists, as well as to students of cultural studies.« less