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(Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis

(Re-)Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis

Urquidez, Alberto G.

Hardcover

Series: African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora

PhilosophyGeneral ReferenceBlack American Studies

ISBN10: 3030272567
ISBN13: 9783030272562
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: May 10 2020
Pages: 421
Weight: 1.47
Height: 0.94 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

What is racism? is a timely question that is hotly contested in the philosophy of race. Yet disagreement about racism's nature does not begin in philosophy, but in the sociopolitical domain. Alberto G. Urquidez argues that philosophers of race have failed to pay sufficient attention to the practical considerations that prompt the question What is racism? Most theorists assume that racism signifies a language-independent phenomenon that needs to be discovered by the relevant science or uncovered by close scrutiny of everyday usage of this term. (Re-)Defining Racism challenges this metaphysical paradigm. Urquidez develops a Wittgenstein-inspired framework that illuminates the use of terms like definition, meaning, explanation of meaning, and disagreement, for the analysis of contested normative concepts. These elucidations reveal that providing a definition of racism amounts to recommending a form of moral representation--a rule for the correct use of racism. As definitional recommendations must be justified on pragmatic grounds, Urquidez takes as a starting point for justification the interests of racism's historical victims.

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