LEADER 03315nam 2200529 450 001 9910807771903321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-5017-0294-7 010 $a1-5017-0295-5 024 7 $a10.7591/9781501702952 035 $a(CKB)3710000001177194 035 $a(OCoLC)1017610958 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse65182 035 $a(DE-B1597)503297 035 $a(OCoLC)983733461 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781501702952 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4843151 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11375445 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4843151 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001177194 100 $a20170508h19981998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlackness visible $eessays on philosophy and race /$fCharles W. Mills 210 1$aIthaca, New York :$cCornell University Press,$d1998. 210 4$dİ1998 215 $a1 online resource (267 pages) 311 $a0-8014-8471-5 311 $a0-8014-3467-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface -- $t1.Non-Cartesian Sums -- $t2.Alternative Epistemologies -- $t3."But What Are You Really?" -- $t4.Dark Ontologies -- $t5.Revisionist Ontologies -- $t6.The Racial Polity -- $t7.White Right -- $t8. Whose Fourth Of July? -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aCharles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ralph Ellison's metaphor of black invisibility has special relevance to philosophy, whose demographic and conceptual "whiteness" has long been a source of wonder and complaint to racial minorities. Mills points out the absence of any philosophical narrative theorizing and detailing race's centrality to the recent history of the West, such as feminists have articulated for gender domination.European expansionism in its various forms, Mills contends, generates a social ontology of race that warrants philosophical attention.Through expropriation, settlement, slavery, and colonialism, race comes into existence as simultaneously real and unreal: ontological without being biological, metaphysical without being physical, existential without being essential, shaping one's being without being in one's shape.His essays explore the contrasting sums of a white and black modernity, examine standpoint epistemology and the metaphysics of racial identity, look at black-Jewish relations and racial conspiracy theories, map the workings of a white-supremacist polity and the contours of a racist moral consciousness, and analyze the presuppositions of Frederick Douglass's famous July 4 prognosis for black political inclusion. Collectively they demonstrate what exciting new philosophical terrain can be opened up once the color line in western philosophy is made visible and addressed. 606 $aAfrican American philosophy 607 $aUnited States$xRace relations$xPhilosophy 615 0$aAfrican American philosophy. 676 $a305.8/00973 700 $aMills$b Charles W$g(Charles Wade),$0702123 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910807771903321 996 $aBlackness visible$94057544 997 $aUNINA