Race, Rehabilitated - Redux

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ID2369847
AuthorsPaul C Taylor (0000-0002-7739-1498, Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume36
Issue1
Pages175-190
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueCritical Sociology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0896-9205 • E-ISSN: 1569-1632
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/0896920509347146
OpenAlexW1986914413
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited15

Race, Rehabilitated - Redux' explores the metaphysics of passing as a propadeutic to the interdisciplinary practice of critical race theory. Racial metaphysics asks whether races and racial identities exist, what they might be if they do exist, and what race-talk refers to if these things do not exist. Arguments that seek to deny racial categories any role in serious social analysis - arguments of the sort delivered by literary theorist Walter Benn Michaels - too often have their roots in bad metaphysics. This essay explores one of Michaels's arguments in order to remove some of the sophistical obstacles that he and others try to lay across the pathways to critical race theory, and to show that there are intuitively plausible answers to the questions of racial metaphysics apart from the agnosticism and ambivalence that theorists like Howard Winant often, and understandably, indulge on their way to doing the important work of sociological analysis

Agnosticism · Ambivalence · Critical race theory · Epistemology · Essentialism · Metaphysics · Psychoanalysis · Racism · Sociology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Philosophy · Psychology · Race, History, and American Society

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