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Rawls on Race/Race in Rawls [PDF]

open access: possibleThe Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2009
Abstract John Rawls’s A Theory of Justice is widely credited with having revived post–World War II Anglo-American political philosophy, and, with his other four books, to be the most important body of work in the field. Yet in Rawls’s writings and the vast secondary literature it has generated, there is next to no discussion of racial ...
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Race

2014
From its inception psychology has played a central role in producing “race” as a valid concept and object of study and also, more recently, has contributed to attempts to deconstruct the term and show its epistemological violence (Teo, 2011). Today race continues to be a powerful and resilient taken-for-granted concept which institutes and preserves ...
Ahmed, Bipasha, Howarth, Caroline
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Race Racing: Four Theses on Race and Intensity

WSQ: Women's Studies Quarterly, 2012
In what follows I attempt to wrest the concept of race away from reactive dialectics and give it its full positivity. I desire, in other words, to make an affirmation of becoming in the processes of race racing. By "race racing" I don't mean a faster conception of race, but it does involve diagramming speeds as intensive rates and grathents internal to
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Race and the arms race

The Nonproliferation Review, 2016
African Americans Against the Bomb—a well-written, well-researched historical study by Vincent Intondi—explores an important subject: African-American resistance to nuclear weapons.Thanks to schola...
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Race Is, Race Isn’t

2014
Not Guilty. Three little syllables, two simple words, one American tragedy. On July 14, 2013, George Zimmerman was acquitted on all charges in the killing of Trayvon Martin. Less than a month later, on August 12, 2013, a federal judge ruled that New York City’s controversial stop-and-frisk policy violated the constitutional rights of various minority ...
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Attractiveness of Own-Race, Other-Race, and Mixed-Race Faces

Perception, 2005
Averaged face composites, which represent the central tendency of a familiar population of faces, are attractive. If this prototypicality contributes to their appeal, then averaged composites should be more attractive when their component faces come from a familiar, own-race population than when they come from a less familiar, other-race population ...
Gillian Rhodes   +9 more
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The Race for Theory

Feminist Studies, 1987
Abstract I have seized this occasion to break the silence among those of us, critics, as we are now called, who have been intimidated. devalued by what I call the race for theory. I have become convinced that there has been a rake-over in the literary world by western philosophers from the old literary elite.
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Race, Labour and the Archbishop, or the Currency of Race

Race, Ethnicity and Education, 2001
The article explores how race is being exploited to serve political agendas in contemporary Britain. It focuses on an examination of the Labour Government's orientation to race, and argues that despite an apparent concern, the Labour Government manipulates issues to suggest concern while it removes race from the policy agenda in education. The analysis
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After race: Ethnography, race and post-race theory

Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2006
Abstract If race is an arbitrary sign used to divide up the human population, why do social constructionists continue to deploy the term at the same time as they refute its existence? If race is an empty category that holds no value what does it mean to be writing, researching and conducting ethnography in the name of race?
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