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Material Type: Paper; Class: TOPICS: AESTHETICS; Subject: Philosophy; University: Rhodes College; Term: Fall 2000;
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Philosophy 250: PHILOSOPHY OF RACE Fall 2007, T/Th 2:00-3: SYLLABUS
Professor: Dr. Leigh M. Johnson Office: Clough 401B Email: johnsonl@rhodes.edu Office Hours: MTW 10-12 (and by appointment)
Course Description: In this course, we will examine the advent and evolution of the concept of “race,” how it has been treated philosophically, and its application to the fields of ethics, metaphysics, epistemology, scientific methodology, and politics. The course will conclude with an evaluation of South African apartheid and the post-apartheid Truth and Reconciliation Commission, in order to discuss contemporary political strategies devised to address the “problem” of race. Students are encouraged to think critically not only about race as a global phenomenon or philosophical concept, but also as it may bear on their own particular experience.
Required (Classroom) Texts:
Independent (Group) Texts:
Course Requirements:
Grading Scale:
A 93-100 C+ 78- A- 90-92 C 73- B+ 88-89 C- 70- B 83-87 D 60- B- 80-82 F < 60
Dr. J’s “Ground Rules”
Schedule of Classes
Aug 23 Course and syllabus overview; Introductory lecture
Aug. 28 Bernier, “A New Division of Earth” Kant, “Of the Different Human Races” Aug. 30 Herder, “Idea on the Philosophy of the History of Humankind” Hegel, “Anthropology”
Sep. 4 Gobineau, “The Inequality of Human Races” Galton, “Eugenics: Its Definition, Scope, and Aim” Sep. 6 (Alain) Locke, “The Concept of Race as Applied to Social Culture” Montagu, “The Concept of Race in the Human Species in Light of Genetics”
Sep. 11 DuBois, “The Conservation of Races” Sep. 13 Appiah, “The Uncompleted Argument: DuBois and the Illusion of Race”
Sep. 18 Senghor, “What is Negritude?” Sep. 20 Fanon, “Racism and Culture” and “The Fact of Blackness”
Sept. 25 Group Presentation (Memmi, The Colonizer and the Colonized ) Sept. 27 Omi and Winant, “Racial Formation in the United States” SHORT PAPER DUE
Oct. 2 Group Presentation (Coetzee, Waiting for the Barbarians ) Oct. 5 MIDTERM EXAM
Oct. 9 Mills, “Preface” and “Non-Cartesian Sums ” Oct. 11 Group Presentation (Frederickson, Racism: A Short History)
Oct. 16 & 18 FALL BREAK
Oct. 23 Mills, “But What Are You Really? The Metaphysics of Race” Oct. 25 Mills, “But What Are You Really? The Metaphysics of Race” (cont.)
Oct. 30 Group Presentation (Roth, The Human Stain) Nov. 1 Group Presentation (Sartre, Anti-Semite and Jew )
Nov. 6 López, “White By Law” MacIntosh, “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” Nov. 8 NO CLASS
Nov. 13 Mills, “Revisionist Ontologies: Theorizing White Supremacy” Nov. 15 Mills, “The Racial Polity”
Nov. 20 & 22 THANKSGIVING BREAK
Nov. 27 Apartheid and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission Nov. 29 Group Presentation (Malan, My Traitor’s Heart)
Dec. 4 Apartheid and the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission
FINAL PAPER DUE BY NOON ON EXAM DAY