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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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11Philosophical Feminism and Popular Culture (edited book)Lexington Books. 2012.The eight essays contained in this book explore the portrayal of women, and various philosophical responses to that portrayal in contemporary post-civil rights society. They bring feminist voices to the conversation about gender and attests to the importance of feminist critique in what is sometimes claimed to be a post-feminist era
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21Proposal for a Feminist Kantian Liberal Obligation to Resist Oppression (review)Radical Philosophy Review 17 (1): 313-317. 2014.
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15Lewis R. Gordon, "Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism" (review)Man and World 28 (4): 461-463. 1995.Reviewed by Naomi Zack.
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30Ethics for DisasterRowman & Littlefield Publishers. 2009.Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of the aftermath of natural disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, and tornadoes. The book explores how these catastrophes illuminate the existing inequalities in society, combining a unique philosophical approach with new moral thinking. Zack stresses the obligation of both individuals and government in preparing for and responding to dangerous times, forcefully arguing for the preservation of normal moral principles even in times of crisis an…Read more
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77The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race (edited book)Oxford University Press USA. 2017.The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in African American philosophy and philosophy of race. These original essays encompass the major topics and approaches in this emerging philosophical subfield that supports demographic inclusion and diversity while at the same time strengthening the conceptual arsenal of social and political philosophy. Over the course of the volume's ten topic-based sections, ideas …Read more
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380Race/Sex: Their Sameness, Difference, and Interplay (edited book)Routledge. 1997.____Race/Sex__ is the first forum for combined discussion of racial theory and gender theory. In sixteen articles, avant-garde scholars of African American philosophy and liberatory criticism explore and explode the categories of race, sex and gender into new trajectories that include sexuality, black masculinity and mixed-race identity.
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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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7Race and Philosophic MeaningIn Bernard Boxill (ed.), Race and Racism, Oxford University Press. 2000.
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50No 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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