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908Symposium: Are Certain Knowledge Frameworks More Congenial to the Aims of Cross-Cultural Philosophy?Journal of World Philosophies 2 (2): 99-107. 2017.In “Global Knowledge Frameworks and the Tasks of Cross-Cultural Philosophy,” Leigh Jenco searches for the conception of knowledge that best justifies the judgment that one can learn from non-local traditions of philosophy. Jenco considers four conceptions of knowledge, namely, in catchwords, the esoteric, Enlightenment, hermeneutic, and self- transformative conceptions of knowledge, and she defends the latter as more plausible than the former three. In this critical discussion of Jenco’s article…Read more
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43Anti-Asian RacismAmerican Philosophical Quarterly 60 (4): 411-424. 2023.Over the last twenty-five years, philosophers have offered increasingly more sophisticated accounts of the nature and wrongness of racism. But very little in this literature discusses what is distinctive to anti-Asian racism. This gap exists partly because philosophy, like much of U.S. culture, has been influenced by civic narratives that center anti-black racism in ways that leave vague anti-Asian racism. We discuss this conceptual gap and its effects on understanding anti-Asian racism. In resp…Read more
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5550Xenophobia and RacismCritical Philosophy of Race 2 (1): 20-45. 2014.Xenophobia is conceptually distinct from racism. Xenophobia is also distinct from nativism. Furthermore, theories of racism are largely ensconced in nationalized narratives of racism, often influenced by the black-white binary, which obscures xenophobia and shelters it from normative critiques. This paper addresses these claims, arguing for the first and last, and outlining the second. Just as philosophers have recently analyzed the concept of racism, clarifying it and pinpointing why it’s immor…Read more
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32Alterity, Analectics, and the Challenges of Epistemic DecolonizationSouthern Journal of Philosophy 57 (S1): 37-62. 2019.This essay explores some conceptual and diagnostic frameworks to advance epistemic decolonization in the US philosophical profession. A central focus is the distinction between those philosophies of formerly colonized peoples that are culturally alterior or, simply, alterior and those that are analectical in the Dusselian sense of emerging from a subordinated political position. The paper begins by reflecting upon connections between coloniality, the alterior, and the analectical to frame the di…Read more
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26Undoing Western Hegemony, Unpacking the Particulars:Taking Back Philosophy: A Review of Bryan Van Norden's Taking Back Philosophy A Multicultural Manifesto (review)Philosophy East and West 69 (2): 619-627. 2019.As the title suggests, Taking Back Philosophy: A Multicultural Manifesto offers a critique of the profession of philosophy and an inclusive vision for its future. Importantly, unlike many philosophical critiques of philosophy, this book is not merely meta. It delivers a bona fide introduction to philosophy while exemplifying the kinds of conceptual sensitivities and skills that can help students see that philosophy is distinctively valuable. The author, Bryan Van Norden, provides compelling and …Read more
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1922What is Asian American Philosophy?In George Yancy (ed.), Philosophy in Multiple Voices, Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 219. 2007.
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1073Asian American Philosophers: Absence, Politics, and IdentityAmerican Philosophical Association Newsletter 1 (2): 25-28. 2002.Less than one percent of U.S. philosophers are Asian American. This essay contends that the low percentage cannot be fully explained by considerations of demographics, immigration, and "Asian culture." Completeness of explanation requires reference to racial politics and Orientalism in their historic and national dynamics. It also requires reference to various kinds of identity derogation specific to the academy and to philosophy, in particular. The essay concludes with reflection on how the "mo…Read more
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3910Shame and Self-Revision in Asian American AssimilationIn Emily S. Lee (ed.), Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race, State University of New York Press. pp. 103-132. 2014.
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545Orientalism and America EnlargedIn Paul C. Taylor (ed.), The Philosophy of Race: Critical Concepts in Philosophy, . 2011.Recent work in philosophy of race involves Native American, Africana, and Latin American critiques of the sociohistorical specificity underlying allegedly universalist moral and political philosophy in the U.S. and the West generally. Joining the discussion, this essay explores American orientalism in terms of the imperialist expansion of the U.S. across the Pacific since the late 19th century. Toward this end, Hawai'i, Guam, and thereby the U.S. itself are conceptualized as geopolitical gestalt…Read more
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1Contempt and Ordinary InequalityIn Susan E. Babbitt & Sue Campbell (eds.), Racism and Philosophy, Cornell University Press. 1999.
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1006The place of American empire: Amerasian territories and late American ModernityPhilosophy and Geography 7 (1): 95-121. 2004.Imperialism rarely receives discussion in mainstream philosophy. In radical philosophy, where imperialism is analyzed with some frequency, European expansion is the paradigm. This essay considers the nature and specificity of American imperialism, especially its racialization structures, diplomatic history, and geographic trajectory, from pre‐twentieth century “Amerasia” to present‐day Eurasia. The essay begins with an account of imperialism generally, one which is couched in language consistent…Read more
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1118Self-Contempt and Color-Blind Liberalism in The Accidental AsianIn E. Ann Kaplan & Susan Scheckel (eds.), Boundaries of Affect: Ethnicity and Emotion, Stony Brook University Humanities Institute. 2007.
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891José Mariátegui's East-South Decolonial ExperimentComparative and Continental Philosophy 7 (2): 157-179. 2015.Common notions of comparative philosophy tend to be strongly configured by the East-West axis. This essay suggests ways of seeing Latin American liberation philosophy as a form of comparative philosophy and an important Latin American thinker as being relevant for East-West political philosophy. The essay focuses on the Peruvian activist and intellectual, José Mariátegui, who is widely regarded to have been a leading Marxist, liberatory, and decolonial figure in 20th century Latin America. Like …Read more
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Empire's Entrails and the Imperial Geography of 'Amerasia'City 8 (1): 57-88. 2004.Most criticism of American imperialism is founded on theories that take European expansion as their paradigm. Here David Haekwon Kim examines aspects of distinctly American imperialism, specifically urban anticipations of US overseas expansion, the codification of imperial dominion in structures of US foreign diplomacy and the prophetic geography of US domination extending from “Amerasia” to Eurasia. First, Kim offers some stage-setting through a preliminary account of imperialism cast in the vo…Read more
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1868The Unexamined Frontier: Dewey, Pragmatism, and America EnlargedIn Chad Kautzer Eduardo Mendieta (ed.), Pragmatism, Nation, and Race: Community in the Age of Empire, Indiana University Press. pp. 46--72. 2009.This essay critically examines the political philosophy of John Dewey in relation to U.S. imperialism in the Asia-Pacific. First, using the work of Louis Menand and Robert Brandom's critical refinement of it, the significance of U.S. imperialism for pragmatism is discussed. Second, the essay argues that Dewey's work reveals a structured and generative absence of reflection on the expansion of American racial hegemony across the Pacific in spite of Dewey's serious engagement with Asia and especia…Read more
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Mortal Feelings: A Theory of Revulsion and the Intimacy of AgencyDissertation, Syracuse University. 2001.Moral philosophy has been increasingly concerned with the nature of emotion and its ethical significance. Almost no attention, however, has been paid to disgust, in spite of its evident connections to taboos, exclusionary policies, and severe forms of moral, political, and aesthetic condemnation. This dissertation offers a theory of revulsion. On the basis of this account, it also gives us a way of thinking about intimate or tactile features of moral agency, which play a vital role in maintainin…Read more
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