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Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism)

Theory of Racelessness: A Case for Antirace(ism)

Mason, Sheena Michele

Hardcover

Series: African American Philosophy and the African Diaspora

PhilosophyCriminology

ISBN10: 3030999432
ISBN13: 9783030999438
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: May 28 2022
Pages: 224
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.56 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

This book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and pedagogical framework for analyzing race and racism. It explores the history of skeptical eliminativism and constructionist eliminativism within the history of African American philosophy and literary studies and its consistent connection with movements for civil rights. Sheena M. Mason considers how current anti-racist efforts reflect naturalist conservationist and constructionist reconstructionist philosophies of race that prevent more people from fully confronting the problem of racism, not race, thereby enabling racism to persist. She then offers a three-part solution for how scholars and people aspiring toward anti-racism can avoid unintentionally upholding racism, using literary studies as a case study to show how race often translates into racism itself. The theory of racelessness helps more people undo racism by undoing the belief in race.

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