LEADER 04115nam 22006855 450 001 9910574051303321 005 20230810175031.0 010 $a9783030999445$b(electronic bk.) 010 $z9783030999438 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-99944-5 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC7001368 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL7001368 035 $a(CKB)22898392300041 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-99944-5 035 $a(EXLCZ)9922898392300041 100 $a20220527d2022 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aTheory of Racelessness $eA Case for Antirace(ism) /$fby Sheena Michele Mason 205 $a1st ed. 2022. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2022. 215 $a1 online resource (234 pages) 225 1 $aAfrican American Philosophy and the African Diaspora,$x2945-6002 311 08$aPrint version: Mason, Sheena Michele Theory of Racelessness Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2022 9783030999438 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $a1.Introduction: Working Toward a Post-Racist United States -- 2.Chapter One: Philosophies Of Race: (Re)Conceptualizing African American Literature and Anti-Racist Practices -- 3.Chapter Two: Racelessness In Literary Studies: The Literal Absence Versus The Figurative Presence Of Color In American Society -- 4.Chapter Three: Toni Morrison?s Marathon Run Home In Song Of Solomon, ?Recitatif,? And Paradise -- 5.Chapter Four: The Twilight Zone: Cutting Through The Madness Created By America?s Raci(Al/St) House -- 6.Conclusion: Imagining A Post-Racist United States. 330 $aThis book presents a skeptical eliminativist philosophy of race and the theory of racelessness, a methodological and pedagogical framework for analyzing "race" and racism. It explores the history of skeptical eliminativism and constructionist eliminativism within the history of African American philosophy and literary studies and its consistent connection with movements for civil rights. Sheena M. Mason considers how current anti-racist efforts reflect naturalist conservationist and constructionist reconstructionist philosophies of race that prevent more people from fully confronting the problem of racism, not race, thereby enabling racism to persist. She then offers a three-part solution for how scholars and people aspiring toward anti-racism can avoid unintentionally upholding racism, using literary studies as a case study to show how "race" often translates into racism itself. The theory of racelessness helps more people undo racism by undoing the belief in "race." Sheena Michele Mason earned her Ph.D. in English literature from Howard University. In August 2021, she joined the faculty at SUNY Oneonta as an Assistant Professor in English. She co-founded Theory of Racelessness, an educational consulting firm that helps people use alternative philosophies of race and her theory to achieve truly anti-racist outcomes. 410 0$aAfrican American Philosophy and the African Diaspora,$x2945-6002 606 $aLiterature$xPhilosophy 606 $aCritical theory 606 $aRace 606 $aAfrican Americans 606 $aCulture 606 $aPhilosophy of Literature 606 $aCritical Theory 606 $aRace and Ethnicity Studies 606 $aLiterary Theory 606 $aAfrican American Culture 615 0$aLiterature$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aCritical theory. 615 0$aRace. 615 0$aAfrican Americans. 615 0$aCulture. 615 14$aPhilosophy of Literature. 615 24$aCritical Theory. 615 24$aRace and Ethnicity Studies. 615 24$aLiterary Theory. 615 24$aAfrican American Culture. 676 $a320.569 676 $a305.8 700 $aMason$b Sheena Michele$01237774 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 912 $a9910574051303321 996 $aTheory of Racelessness$92873118 997 $aUNINA