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7Race and Philosophic MeaningIn Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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1Race and Racism: DvdMilk Bottle Productions. 2002.Is racism an act of the will? A disease? A bad habit? A result of lost virtues or of historical economic forces? Can we reliably claim that racism is an affront to justice? How does our scientific understanding of "race" affect our ethical considerations? How can we ever know if we are acting from racist assumptions? With Leonard Harris, Naomi Zack, and Hugh Taft-Morales.
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33No More Mothers?Social Philosophy Today 25 17-30. 2009.The role of motherhood was attenuated over the second half of the twentieth century, by literal and metaphorical factors: Privileged women gained control over their reproduction and developed non-mothering life priorities; government and society became less nurturing in public ideals; projects of spontaneous speciation began in biology; the environment became unsustaining. In addition, feminist criticism resulted in greater individuation between the persons of mothers and their children. With th…Read more
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32Lebron, Christopher J. The Color of Our Shame: Race and Justice in Our Time.New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. Pp. xi+202. $74.00 (review)Ethics 125 (3): 888-892. 2015.
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6The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of Philosophy, with a New PrefaceRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015.Naomi Zack brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an inquiry into the history of moral philosophy. The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy enters into a web of ideas, ethics, and morals that untangle our evolving ideas of racial equality straight into the twenty-first century. In the preface to the paperback edition, Zack addresses the criticisms raised in response to this book and concludes that a focus on rights and justice, rather than pri…Read more
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18Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality: The Big Questions (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 1998.This ambitious philosophical anthology combines analyses and surveys of contemporary theorising on social identity.
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12Book Review: Philosophies of Race and Ethnicity (review)Journal of Moral Philosophy 2 (1): 104-108. 2005.
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59Mixed Black and White Race and Public PolicyHypatia 10 (1). 1995.The American folk concept of race assumes the factual existence of races. However, biological science does not furnish empirical support for this assumption. Public policy derived from nineteenth century slave-owning patriarchy is the only foundation of the "one-drop rule" for black and white racial inheritance. In principle, Americans who are both black and white have a right to identify themselves racially. In fact, recent demographic changes and multiracial academic scholarship support this r…Read more
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22Why I Write So Many Books About RaceJournal of World Philosophies 1 (1): 131-137. 2016.I relate how my life has intersected with my work in philosophy, both before and after a twenty-year absence from academia. Motivations for engaging in Philosophy of Race may be different from other projects because the subject itself is urgent and the philosopher may be a person of color. I describe the development of my own writing in this subfield, from ontological issues in the philosophy of science to moral issues in political philosophy and cultural criticism. The first addressed the biolo…Read more
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64Race and Racial DiscriminationIn Hugh LaFollette (ed.), The Oxford handbook of practical ethics, Oxford University Press. pp. 245--271. 2003.
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Race and Racism: No Dogs or Philosophers AllowedDVD. forthcoming.Is racism an act of the will? A disease? A bad habit? A result of lost virtues or of historical economic forces? Can we reliably claim that racism is an affront to justice? How does our scientific understanding of "race" affect our ethical considerations ? How can we ever know if we are acting from racist assumptions? With Leonard Harris, Naomi Zack, and Hugh Taft-Morales
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3On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant? (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2000.
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1Bella Swan and Sarah Palin: All the old myths are not trueIn William Irwin, Rebecca Housel & J. Jeremy Wisnewski (eds.), Twilight and Philosophy: Vampires, Vegetarians, and the Pursuit of Immortality, Wiley. pp. 121--30. 2009.
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47The Ethics of Disaster Planning: Preparation vs ResponsePhilosophy of Management 8 (2): 55-66. 2009.We are morally obligated to plan for disaster because it affects human life and well-being. Because contemporary disasters affect the public, such planning should be public in democracies and it should not violate the basic ethical principles of normal times. Current Avian Flu pandemic planning is restricted to a response model based on scarce resources, or inadequate preparation, which gives priority to some lives over others. Rather than this model of ‘Save the Greatest Number,’ the public wou…Read more
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