Race, Intellectual Racism, and the Opened Door

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ID18955949
AuthorsEdwin Etieyibo (0000-0003-1801-4593, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume11
Issue2
Pages309-338
Publication date2023-07-27
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Philosophy of Race (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2165-8684 • E-ISSN: 2165-8692
PublisherThe Pennsylvania State University Press (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5325/critphilrace.11.2.0309
OpenAlexW4386450970
LanguageEN
References cited26

There are forms of discriminations that are not defensible, and unjustified discriminations manifest in different forms. One such manifestation is racism, which involves the use of morally arbitrary natural and moral constituents (characteristics, abilities, qualities) to demarcate racial or ethnic groups and consequently designate some groups as superior and others as inferior. In this article, I discuss one form of racism (intellectual racism), namely, racism in relation to color, as a way of highlighting how the notion of superiority and inferiority of racial or ethnic groups (Caucasian and Africans) play out in the intellectual landscape and discourse. Ultimately, my motivations are threefold: one, to signify and engage with some views of racial coloring and color eliminativism; two, to make and extend the position that color eliminativism is not defensible; and three, to highlight and emphasize the claim that given the notion of a “one-colored humanity,” racial groups ought not to be classified as superior or inferior

Aesthetics · Eliminative materialism · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Humanity · Political science · Psychometrics of racism · Racism · Sociology · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology

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