Naomi Zack
Biographic Data
| ID | 150206 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Naomi Zack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Naomi |
| FAMILY NAME | Zack |
| SIGNATURE | ZACK N |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Oregon |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-2073-1404 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 60 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 38 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 22 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies
This dynamic new text for ethics and philosophy of race courses brings together subjects philosophers have generally kept separate—ethics and race. But every issue concerning raceis an ethical issue, and it’s time we studied them as such. Naomi Zack introduces students to historical and contemporary issues of race and racism and provides an ethical foundation for students to critically engage with these issues in the classroom and in their lives.…
Ethics for Disaster
Ethics for Disaster shows how individual and government preparation and response to hurricanes, earthquakes, tornadoes, wildfires, pandemics, and other disasters are ethical matters. Confronting the social inequalities revealed by these disasters, we must also acknowledge how the lack of preparation for climate change and pandemics has shifted these threats from modern, isolated disasters into constant contemporary risks. This second edition pres…
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
Charles Mills, Before, Now, and Later
In memoriam and ongoing engagement, I begin with my earlier critical interpretation and a reinterpretation that shows how Mills was prescient, given the recrudescence of white supremacy now daily evident in the United States. This leads to an historical analysis of the racial contract as the racist contract and of the racist contract as the racist compact. The racist compact endures in society, outside of government, but protected by democracy. T…
Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies
George Yancy’s Across Black Spaces Before and During the Corona Disaster
George Yancy’s existential analyses of Black life in anti‐Black and anti‐intellectual US society have been evocative and magisterial. The different parts of his Across Black Spaces both reprise his earlier work and take it further with new notes of concern. I suggest that COVID‐19 is metaphysical, that Yancy’s work is uniquely important for studies of race in the United States and as an intervention in our collective intellectuality. However, I s…
Ethnicity and Related Forms of Race
Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
1. Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy -- 2. Egalitarian Spiritual and Legal Traditions -- 3. Race according to Biological Science -- 4. Ideas of Race in 20th Century American and Continental Philosophy -- 5. Ethnicity and Related Forms of Race -- 6. Social Construction and Racial Identities -- 7. Racism and Neo-Racisms -- 8. Race in Contemporary Life -- 9. Political Philosophy, Law, and Public Policy -- 10. Feminism, Gender, and…
Exploring the Matter of Race
The biological fact of race and the social myth of racial inequality can be examined from a Marxist philosophical perspective. A materialist philosophical perspective on the social ontology of race, includes due consideration given to the material context of social relations of production and the State as an instrument of the ruling class. A Marxist analysis renders capitalism as context and determinate ground for the explanation of racism on a m…
Race and Ethnicity
Discussions of race are often entangled with ethnicity and vice versa. Indeed, some of the most difficult epistemic and social problems they each raise rely on solutions that involve the other. None of the views that propose solutions that involve the elimination of race or ethnicity, their reduction to each other or something else, or that neglect the constructive and realist elements in these phenomena provides a viable alternative that can ser…
History of African American Political Thought and Antiracist Critical Theory
The relationship between antiracist critical theory and the study of the history of African American thought merits consideration in light of an ongoing debate between anachronists and antiquarians about the relationship between the current practice of philosophy and the study of the history of philosophy. Contemporary antiracist critical theory is extensive and includes expansive genealogical and critical historical accounts of modern racism; ra…
Hegel, History, and Race
Hegel’s philosophy of history and his treatment of race are inextricably entwined. Reflection on this entwinement reveals the complexities of any attempt that aims to mark the limits of Hegel’s thought and Hegel scholarship while at the same time recovering Hegelian insights. Considering Hegel’s conceptions of history and race in the Anthropology and the Lectures on the Philosophy of History helps assess Susan Buck-Morss’ s Hegel, Haiti, and Univ…
Between Reconstruction and Elimination
Alain Locke assessed the anthropological theories of race in his day and rejected the idea that race was causally related to culture. Locke argued further that scientific theories of race were not always the best theories for understanding the phenomena of race. His solution was to develop a concept of ethnic/social race, and his account is still relevant to contemporary philosophy of race. Locke distinguishes between three primary conceptions of…
The Racialization of Muslims in the Post-9/11 United States
Muslims in the post-9/11 United States have become racialized through a series of laws and public policies ostensibly designed to protect the American public. These occurrences support a functional account of race: laws and public policies are used to render certain populations vulnerable, possibly criminalizing them, rendering them without the protection of legal or political protection, and creating a hostile environment in which those populati…
Racial Profiling and the Political Philosophy of Race
Philosophical reflection on racial profiling takes one of two forms. The first sees it as an example of “statistical discrimination,” raising the question of when, if ever, probabilistic generalizations about group behavior or characteristics can be used to judge particular individuals. The second is concerned with how racial profiling illuminates the reproduction of hierarchies of power and privilege based on skin color and morphology. Insights …
The Quartet in the Political Persona of Ida B. Wells
Antilynching activism and advocacy are codified in Wells’s writings, particularly the 1892 pamphlet Southern Horrors: Lynch Law in All Its Phases. Wells presented an astute political analysis of racial-sexual violence within US democracy that remains influential from the late nineteenth to the early twenty-first century. A review of Wells’s advocacy for Afro-American autonomy and self-defense to counter racial terror and rape, and her critique of…
Black American Social Identity and Its Blackness
Understanding black American social identity has suffered from association with the race idea. Being black American is not a racial designation. The tendency to reduce color-conscious social identity to racial classification is a mistake. Black American social identity gets its “blackness” from traceable African ancestry and is marked by the legacy of slavery. Yet being black American has become an elective identity: Americans with visible Africa…
The Sting of Shame
Our allegiance to individualism sanctions the insult, with or without humor, to a significant extent through free speech rights. But what if the sting of symbolic aggression––as seemingly minor as an insult dressed up in the pleasantries of a joke––in fact accounts in many instances for the more acute pain of the physical assault? To be sure, physical assaults can harm material well-being. But what if a dimension of violence cannot be understood …
To Be Black, Excess, and Nonrecyclable
One way of understanding the white man’s burden is as a waste management problem. The White West abjected Africans and people of African descent, thereby enacting and enabling their perception and treatment as a form of waste. The value of black waste to white Western economies is discernable in the metaphysics of a white imaginary of black abjection. It is necessary to elucidate that metaphysics, which reveals the structure of a humanist discour…
The Violent Weight of Whiteness
What is the lived experience of the black male body within the context of white America in the twenty-first century? How can we describe the deep existential and psychic dimensions of black male bodies as they negotiate their lives within the context of white hegemony? How do their bodies continue to be truncated according to a distorted and racist imago in the white imaginary? The black male body, within the context of this white imaginary, cons…
Ethnological Theories of Race/Sex in Nineteenth-Century Black Thought
The presumed opposition between man and woman is a very recent phenomenon in the historical scope of gender. This is especially true for black Americans who were thought to be “ungendered” throughout history. In the nineteenth century only the white race was gendered—blacks were believed to be too savage to share these distinctions. The theory of gender that white ethnologists applied to black Americans in the nineteenth and early twentieth centu…
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race
The Oxford Handbook of Philosophy and Race provides up-to-date explanation and analyses by leading scholars of contemporary issues in philosophy of race and African American philosophy. Ideas about race held by Locke, Hume, Kant, Hegel, and Nietzsche are supplemented by suppressed thought from the African diaspora, early twentieth-century African American perspectives, and Native American, Asian American, and Latin American views. Philosophical a…
Nietzsche as a Philosopher of Racialized Breeding
When Nietzsche’s discussions of racial issues are read in historical context, many of the attempts by recent scholars to try to exonerate him of racism turn out to be less persuasive than they first appeared to be. Remarks that are often presented as transgressive can be shown to be relatively commonplace. Furthermore, his defenses of slavery and of colonialism deserve more critical attention than they have been given. Those scholars who judge th…
The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race
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 suc…
Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy
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 aright to identify themselves racially. In fact, recent demographic changes an…
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Book Review| April 01 2003 The Anatomy of Racial Inequality The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, Glenn C. Loury. Naomi Zack Naomi Zack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501338 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Naomi Zack; The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Journal of American Eth…
"Philosophical aspects of the 'AAA Statement on "Race
I apply philosophical analysis to the 'AAA Statement on "Race"' (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter(1997). Racial essentialism is the theory that there are distinct and general human biological traits that determine racial membership and cause the presence of specific racial traits. This theory is false, as is the belief that a taxonomy of human races, or ra…
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction
1. Ideas of Race in the Canonical History of Philosophy -- 2. Egalitarian Spiritual and Legal Traditions -- 3. Race according to Biological Science -- 4. Ideas of Race in 20th Century American and Continental Philosophy -- 5. Ethnicity and Related Forms of Race -- 6. Social Construction and Racial Identities -- 7. Racism and Neo-Racisms -- 8. Race in Contemporary Life -- 9. Political Philosophy, Law, and Public Policy -- 10. Feminism, Gender, and…
Race and Mixed Race
1 p. abstract. Print (xv, 215 p.) available for circulation through the University of Oregon's Knight Library under the call number: E185.615 .Z33 1993. For more information, visit the publisher's web site at: http://www.temple.edu/tempress/titles/1004_reg.html
Mixed Black and White Race and Public Policy
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 aright to identify themselves racially. In fact, recent demographic changes an…
Bachelors of Science: Seventeenth Century Identity, Then and Now
Feminist Criticism 2. Descartes' Doubt and Pyrrhonic Skepticism 3. The Via Media and English Empiricism Part II: The New Identities 4. Bachelors in Life 5. Locke's Forensic Self 6. Propriety and Civic Identity 7. Protestant Difference and Toleration 8. The Royal Society 9. Hypotheses non Fingo Part III: The Unidentified 10. Abuses and Uses of Children 11. Wifemen and Feminists 12. Slavery without Race 13. Witches and Magi 14. The Wealth of Nature…
Notes on cuomo
Philosophy and Racial Paradigms
Nancy L. Rosenblum, Membership and Morals: The Personal Uses of Pluralism in America
Response to Lucius Outlaw
"Philosophical aspects of the 'AAA Statement on "Race
I apply philosophical analysis to the 'AAA Statement on "Race"' (American Anthropological Association, 1998) and the commentary on its earlier draft published in the Anthropology Newsletter(1997). Racial essentialism is the theory that there are distinct and general human biological traits that determine racial membership and cause the presence of specific racial traits. This theory is false, as is the belief that a taxonomy of human races, or ra…
The Anatomy of Racial Inequality
Book Review| April 01 2003 The Anatomy of Racial Inequality The Anatomy of Racial Inequality, Glenn C. Loury. Naomi Zack Naomi Zack Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2003) 22 (3): 123–124. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501338 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Naomi Zack; The Anatomy of Racial Inequality. Journal of American Eth…
Philosophy of Science and Race
Mixing It Up: Multiracial Subjects
The United States Census 2000 presents a twenty-first century America in which mixed-race marriages, cross-race adoption, and multiracial families in general are challenging the ethnic definitions by which the nation has historically categorized its population. Addressing a wide spectrum of questions raised by this rich new cultural landscape, Mixing It Up brings together the observations of ten noted voices who have experienced multiracialism fi…
Murray Murphey's Work and C. I. Lewis's Epistemology: Problems with Realism and the Context of Logical Positivism
n 1914, after Charles Peirce had died, his widow gave or sold his voluminous unpublished papers to Harvard University, where they were haphazardly stored in a room in a library. When C. I. Lewis gave up his tenured position at Berkeley to return to Harvard in 1920, he was assigned an office in the room containing Peirce's papers. After reading through the material over several years, Lewis realized that he, like Peirce, was a "conceptual pragmati…
Can Third Wave Feminism be Inclusive?: Intersectionality, Its Problems and New Directions
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
Ethics for disaster
Ethics for Disaster addresses the moral aspects of hurricanes, earthquakes, tornados, plane crashes, Avian Flu pandemics, and other disasters. Naomi Zack focuses on how nonwhite, poor, elderly, and disabled disaster victims suffer most. Using both real-life and fictional examples, Zack forcefully argues for the preservation of normal moral principles in times of national crisis and emergency, stressing the moral obligation of both individuals and…
The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory
The Fluid Symbol of Mixed Race
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 suc…
The handy philosophy answer book
An introduction to the world of philosophy: looks at philosophical fundamentals, various schools of thought, and more
Violence, Poverty, and Disaster: New Orleans, Haiti, and Chile
About the Ethics and Mores of Race: A Reply to My Critics
Proposal for a Feminist Kantian Liberal Obligation to Resist Oppression
Racial Equality, Human Equality, and Fairness
Equality
Universal human equality that includes all peoples is a relatively new idea in western history. In the United States, racial inequality has frequently been addressed by increasing educational opportunities. Minorities in other western states may receive more direct government aid, while poor nonwhite countries may in the long term benefit materially by becoming part of the global economy. Issues of white racism and white privilege have an uncerta…
White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism
Book Review| January 01 2015 White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racism Yancy, George, ed. White Self-Criticality beyond Anti-racismLanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2015. 282 pages. ISBN 978-0739189498. Naomi Zack Naomi Zack University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Philosophia Africana (2015) 17 (2): 119–124. https://doi.org/10.5325/philafri.17.2.0119 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Sit…
Not Like Thales: Radical Philosophy from the Continental Tradition
Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice
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