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56Mixed 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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60Race 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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227The 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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1Bella Swan and Sarah Palin: All the old myths are not trueIn 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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59Racial Equality, Human Equality, and FairnessGraduate Faculty Philosophy Journal 35 (1-2): 353-368. 2014.
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159Philosophy of Science and RaceRoutledge. 2002.First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company
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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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82Women 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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51George Yancy’s Density Project in White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racismPhilosophia Africana 17 (2): 119-124. 2015.
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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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Berel Lang, "Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide" (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 6 (2): 152. 1992.
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125Reparations 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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153The 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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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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20“The Family” And Radical Family TheoryIn Hilde Lindemann (ed.), Feminism and Families, Routledge. pp. 43--51. 1997.
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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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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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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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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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