Women of Color and Philosophy A Critical Reader [Paperback]

Philosophy is in its fourth millennium but this collection is the first of its kind. Twelve contemporary women of color who are American academic philosophers consider the methods and subjects of the discipline from perspectives partly informed by their experiences as African American, Asian American, Latina, Mixed Race and Native American.

The Contributors vii

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Critique 23

1 “Discredited Knowledge” in the Nonfiction of Toni Morrison 25
Joy James

2 Cultural Alterity: Cross-cultural Communications and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts 44
Ofelia Schutte

3 Exploring the Sources of western Thought 69
V. F. Cordova

4 General Introduction to the Project: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics 91
Adrian M. S. Piper

Part 2 Activism and Application 133

5 Interview with Angela Y. Davis 135
George Yancy

6 That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory! Or Introducing America’s Indigenous Sovereign Nations Worldviews to Informal Logic Courses 152
Anne Schulherr Waters

7 The Libertarian Role Model and the Burden of Uplifting the Race 168
Barbara Hall

8 Interracial Marriage: Folk Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy 182
Anita L. Allen

Part 3 New Directions 207

9 Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations, and Claims to Philosophy 209
Yoko Arisaka

10 On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant? 235