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Dewey and du Bois: The Meaning of Race and WhitenessDissertation, University of Oregon. 2002.Current philosophical arguments and practical efforts to foster both anti-racism and diversity seem intractable in part due to the persistence of the concept of racial whiteness. This dissertation develops a pragmatic analysis of this concept using resources drawn from the work of John Dewey and W. E. B. Du Bois. Historically, whiteness begins as a negatively defined category connected with practices of exclusion and oppression. I argue that these early practices helped to establish whiteness in…Read more
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55Revealing Male Bodies (edited book)Indiana University Press. 2002.Revealing Male Bodies is the first scholarly collection to directly confront male lived experience. There has been an explosion of work in men's studies, masculinity issues, and male sexuality, in addition to a growing literature exploring female embodiment. Missing from the current literature, however, is a sustained analysis of the phenomenology of male-gendered bodies. Revealing Male Bodies addresses this omission by examining how male bodies are physically and experientially constituted by t…Read more
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Dismounting the Tiger: From Empire to Global Citizen through PragmatismIn Irene Langran & Tammy Birk (eds.), Globalization and Global Citizenship: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Routledge. 2016.
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Global Citizenship Through Reciprocity: Alain Locke and Barack Obama’s Pragmatist PoliticsIn Jacoby Adeshei Carter, Leonard Harris, Chielozona Eze & Arnold L. Farr (eds.), Philosophic Values and World Citizenship: Locke to Obama and Beyond, Lexington Books. 2010.
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What is Male Embodiment?In Nancy Tuana, Wil Cowling, Maurice Hamington, Greg Johnson & Terrance MacMullan (eds.), Revealing Male Bodies, Indiana University Press. 2002.
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189Habits of Hate: A Pragmatist Reconstruction of Habits of Racism and NativismJournal of Hate Studies 9 (1): 93-112. 2011.
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347Dividing Walls and Unifying Murals: Diego Rivera and John Dewey on the Restoration of Art within LifeInter-American Journal of Philosophy 3 (2): 44-59. 2012.English Abstract In Art as Experience, John Dewey decried the estrangement of art from lived human experience, both by artificial conceptual walls and the physical walls that secluded art within museums. Instead he argued that making and enjoying art are crucial organic functions that sustain communities and integrate individuals within their environments. In the 1920’s Diego Rivera became one of the luminaries of the Mexican muralist movement by creating frescoes that were rooted in Mexican lif…Read more
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221Fact, Propaganda or Legitimate Aspiration? Frondizi on the Philosophic Unity of the Two AmericasInter-American Journal of Philosophy 5 (2): 1-11. 2014.English Abstract This paper examines arguments made by the Argentinean philosopher Risieri Frondizi in his essay “On the Unity on the Philosophies of the Two Americas” regarding the legitimacy of unifying the philosophic traditions of the Americas. It argues that the present situation is much as it was in the 1950’s: the two largest philosophical communities of the Americas are still generally isolated from each other and the integration of these communities is a legitimate aspiration. The paper…Read more
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299Pragmatism as Gunship Philosophy: José Vasconcelos’ Critique of John DeweyInter-American Journal of Philosophy 6 (1): 16-31. 2015.English Abstract This work expands the crucial and evolving Inter-American philosophical dialogue from its current state, which has focused on establishing commonalities between the Americas, to include conversations that intelligently and candidly address points of contention. This paper strives to constructively introduce into this dialogue a trenchant critique of one of the most influential English language philosophers of the Americas – John Dewey—made by one of the most influential Spanish …Read more
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10Rebellions Are Built on HopeIn Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), Star Wars and Philosophy Strikes Back, Wiley. 2023.Rogue One is a complex film that invites a wide range of philosophical questioning. This chapter focuses on the film's political aspect. Rogue One powerfully illustrates an essential and timely claim made about the nature of democracy by John Dewey. Rogue One is significantly different from earlier Star Wars films. It does not offer a simple, mythic morality tale, where the difference between right and wrong is as stark as the contrast between Leia's white gown and Vader's black mask. Rogue One …Read more
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15The Platonic Paradox of Darth Plagueis: How could a Sith Lord be Wise?In Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy, Wiley. 2015.As a Sith, Darth Plagueis was a devotee of the Dark Side of the Force, which grants enormous powers to those brave enough to become living conduits for passions like hatred and anger. Such a person would be the exact opposite of what Plato would call “wise.” For Plato, wisdom is a virtue that is inextricably bound to humility and justice. The paradox presented in this chapter opens horizons for reflection on the themes of ethics, wisdom, and freedom. It also raises the possibility that Plato's i…Read more
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13Jon StewartIn William Irwin (ed.), The Ultimate Daily Show and Philosophy, Wiley. 2013.Six years ago, the author wrote a book chapter about why intellectuals, especially philosophers, should study and emulate Jon Stewart if they want to return to being relevant public intellectuals. America needs his brand of popular intellectual criticism even more than we did six years ago, as our civic and political discourse has been almost entirely eclipsed by nasty invective and political spin. Indeed, Stewart's fake news is actually one of our last examples of real, engaged political philos…Read more
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7From American Empire to América Cósmica through Philosophy: Prospero's ReflectionLexington Books. 2022.This book examines points of meaningful affinity as well as contention and misrecognition between philosophical traditions of the Americas. Using Rodó’s metaphors from The Tempest, it reflects on the perils and possibilities for Inter-American philosophy as an established historical fact, a form of propaganda, or as a legitimate aspiration.
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67Is There a White Gift?: A Pragmatist Response to the Problem of WhitenessTransactions of the Charles S. Peirce Society 41 (4): 796-817. 2005.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:is There a White Gift?: A Pragmatist Response to the Problem of Whiteness Terrance A. MacMullan Introduction Lucius Outlaw and Shannon SuUivan are prominent contemporary philosophers of race who follow in the footsteps of W.E.B. Du Bois as they search for a theoretical understanding of race and a political solution to the problem of racism. They agree that the solution to racism is not found in the elimination of the idea of race fro…Read more
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276Balance through Struggle: Understanding the Novel Cosmology of the Force in The Last JediJournal of Religion and Popular Culture 31 (1): 101-113. 2019.
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Episode I : the philosophical menace. The platonic paradox of Darth Plagueis : how could a sith lord be wise?In Jason T. Eberl & Kevin S. Decker (eds.), The Ultimate Star Wars and Philosophy: You Must Unlearn What You Have Learned, Wiley-blackwell. 2015.
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2We Love and Adore our Fatherland Like a Goddess: The Radical Catholic Nationalism of Pedro Albizu CamposInter-American Journal of Philosophy 2 (10): 1-24. 2019.This paper examines political philosophy of Pedro Albizu Campos, a 20th Century political leader and public philosopher from Puerto Rico. It argues that his apparent similarity to other anti-colonial thinkers of his day like José Vasconcelos and José Martí belies a deeper difference. It uses commentaries of his work by scholars such as Carlos Rojas Osorio and Antonio Steven-Arroyo to show that Albizu’s unflinching resistance against imperialism that cost him nearly three decades of freedom and u…Read more
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3Jon Stewart and the new public intellectualIn Jason Holt (ed.), The Daily Show and Philosophy: Moments of Zen in the Art of Fake News, Blackwell. 2007.
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35Habits of Whiteness: A Pragmatist ReconstructionIndiana University Press. 2009.Habits of Whiteness offers a new way to talk about race and racism by focusing on racial habits and how to change them. According to Terrance MacMullan, the concept of racial whiteness has undermined attempts to create a truly democratic society in the United States. By getting to the core of the racism that lives on in unrecognized habits, MacMullan argues clearly and charitably for white folk to recognize the distance between their color-blind ideals and their actual behavior. Revitalizing the…Read more
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21Pragmatism and the Problem of Race (review)Journal of Speculative Philosophy 20 (1): 62-65. 2006.
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110A History of Habit: From Aristotle to Bourdieu (edited book)Lexington Books. 2013.The essays collected here demonstrate that the philosophy of habit is not confined to the work of just a handful of thinkers, but traverses the entire history of Western philosophy and continues to thrive in contemporary theory. A History of Habit: From Aristotle to Bourdieu is the first book to document the richness and diversity of this history. It demonstrates the breadth, flexibility, and explanatory power of the concept of habit as well as its enduring significance. It makes the case for ha…Read more
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89Facing up to Ignorance and Privilege: Philosophy of Whiteness as Public IntellectualismPhilosophy Compass 10 (9): 646-660. 2015.This article offers an overview on current trends and future research possibilities within the philosophy of whiteness. It examines the sub-field of the philosophy of whiteness within the context of the larger field of the philosophy of race in order to assess the viability and relevance of this field of study. Some of the topics on whiteness examined in the article include the problems of white ignorance and privilege, the invisibility of white supremacist racism to white people, and how all th…Read more
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250On war as waste: Jane addams's pragmatic pacifismJournal of Speculative Philosophy 15 (2): 86-104. 2001.
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314Challenges to cultural diversity: Absolutism, democracy, and Alain Locke's value relativismJournal of Speculative Philosophy 19 (2): 129-139. 2005.
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65Radical Pragmatism (review)Newsletter of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy 27 (83): 82-84. 1999.
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84Beyond the pale: A pragmatist approach to whiteness studiesPhilosophy and Social Criticism 31 (3): 267-292. 2005.The recent growth of whiteness studies has brought whiteness under increasing scrutiny as a racial category that is both constructed and morally problematic. Two approaches dominate this relatively new discourse on the proper approach to whiteness. The first approach is eliminativism , which starts from the insight that the discursive categories of race, including whiteness, lack the biological ground that Enlightenment era theorists thought they had, and therefore calls for the elimination of t…Read more
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