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128Murray Murphey's Work and C. I. Lewis's Epistemology: Problems with Realism and the Context of Logical PositivismTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 42 (1): 32-44. 2006.
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51George Yancy’s Density Project in White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racismPhilosophia Africana 17 (2): 119-124. 2015.
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83Women of Color and Philosophy: A Critical Reader (edited book)Wiley-Blackwell. 2000.Philosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the discipline from perspectives partly informed by their experiences as African American, Asian American, Latina, Mixed Race and Native American
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Berel Lang, "Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (2): 152. 1992.
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15Transsexuality and Daseia Y. Cavers-HuffIn Laurie J. Shrage (ed.), You've Changed: Sex Reassignment and Personal Identity, Oup Usa. pp. 66. 2009.
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154The Fluid Symbol of Mixed RaceHypatia 25 (4). 2010.Philosophers have little to lose in making practical proposals. If the proposals are enacted, the power of ideas to change the world is affirmed. If the proposals are rejected, there is new material for theoretical reflection. During the 1990s, I believed that broad public recognition of mixed race, particularly black and white mixed race, would contribute to an undoing of rigid and racist, socially constructed racial categories. I argued for such recognition in my first book, Race and Mixed Rac…Read more
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127Reparations and the Rectification of RaceThe Journal of Ethics 7 (1). 2003.Positive law and problems with identifying beneficiaries confine reparations for U.S. slavery to the level of discourse. Within the discourse, the broader topic of rectification can be addressed. The rectification of slavery includes restoring full humanity to our ideas of the slaves and their descendants and it requires disabuse of the false biological idea of race. This is not racial eliminativism, because biological race never existed, but more importantly because African American racial iden…Read more
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66Lockean Money, Indigenism and GlobalismCanadian Journal of Philosophy 29 (sup1): 31-53. 1999.(1999). Lockean Money, Indigenism and Globalism. Canadian Journal of Philosophy: Vol. 29, Supplementary Volume 25: Civilization and Oppression, pp. 31-53
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170Can third wave feminism be inclusive? Intersectionality, its problems, and new directionsIn Kittay Eva Feder & Martín Alcoff Linda (eds.), The Blackwell Guide to Feminist Philosophy, Wiley-blackwell. pp. 193--207. 2006.This chapter contains section titled: Introduction I The Exclusionary History of Feminism II Solutions to Feminist Exclusion III Philosophy and Intersectionality IV New Directions for Inclusive Feminism Note References.
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20“The Family” And Radical Family TheoryIn Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Feminism and Families, Routledge. pp. 43--51. 1997.
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16Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial InjusticeRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2016.Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices. While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls’s 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal, but injustice as a correctable ill.
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20Review of Sibyl A. Schwarzenbach, On Civic Friendship: Including Women in the State (review)Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2010 (1). 2010.
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91Race and Mixed RaceTemple University Press. 1993.Author note: Naomi Zack is Assistant Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the State University of New York at Albany. She herself is of mixed race: Jewish, African American, and Native American.
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35Nancy L. Rosenblum, membership and morals: The personal uses of pluralism in America (review)Journal of Value Inquiry 34 (1): 111-115. 2000.
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28White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and HomicideRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2015.Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Deepening understanding without abandoning hope, Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights than white privilege as we move forward through today's culture of inequality
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16Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth Century Identity, Then and NowTemple University Press. 1996.Naomi Zack begins this extraordinary book with the premise that if one is to understand Western conceptions of racialized and gendered identity, one needs to go back to a period when such categories were not salient and examine how notions ...
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14The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality After the History of PhilosophyRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2011.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
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