Blackness Visible: Essays on Philosophy and Race 9781501702952

Charles Mills makes visible in the world of mainstream philosophy some of the crucial issues of the black experience. Ra

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Table of contents :
Contents
Preface
1.Non-Cartesian Sums
2.Alternative Epistemologies
3."But What Are You Really?"
4.Dark Ontologies
5.Revisionist Ontologies
6.The Racial Polity
7.White Right
8. Whose Fourth Of July?
Notes
Index

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Blackness Visible

Also by Charles W. Mills:

The Racial Contract

Blackness Visible Essays on Philosophy and Race

Charles W. Mills

Cornell University Press

Ithaca and London

Copyright C 1998 by Corndl University

Library of Congress Cataloging-in Publication Data

All rights reserved. Except for brief quotations in a review, this book, or parts thereof. must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press,

Sage House, 511

Ea.st State

Mills, Charles W. (Charles Wade)

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essays on philosophy

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Includes index. ISBN o-8o14-}467-X (doth : alk. paper).

Street, Ithaca, New York 14850.

-ISBN o-8o14-8471-s (pbk. : alk. paper) First published 1998 by Cornell University Press First printing. Cornell Paperbacks, 1998

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