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RA d i c a l p h i l o s o p h y
a j o u r n a l o f s o c i a l i s t a n d f e m i n i s t p h i l o s o p h y© Radical Philosophy Ltd
MAY/JUNE 1999
Editorial collective
Chris Arthur, Andrew Chitty, Andrew Collier, Diana Coole, Roy Edgley, Howard Feather, Jean Grimshaw, Joseph McCarney, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne, Stella Sandford, Sean Sayers, Alessandra Tanesini
Editorial group
Howard Feather, Kevin Magill, Stewart Martin, Mark Neocleous, Peter Osborne (Reviews), Stella Sandford, Alessandra Tanesini
Issue editors
Peter Osborne and Stella Sandford
Contributors linda martín alcoff
teaches philosophy at Syracuse University. She is the author of Real Knowing (Cornell University Press, 1996).
David macey
is a translator and the author of Lacan in Contexts (1988) and The Lives of Michel Foucault (1993).
He is currently completing a biography of Frantz Fanon, to be published by Granta Books, and a dictionary of critical theory, to be published by Penguin.
Bhikhu parekh
is Professor of Politics at the University of Hull. His most recent book is The Politics of Multiculturalism (Macmillan, 1998).
Naoki sakai
is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and History at Cornell University. He is the author of Translation and Subjectivity: On ʻJapanʼ and Cultural Nationalism (University of Minnesota Press, 1997)
Françoise vergès
teaches French at the University of Sussex. Her book on Fanon is forthcoming from Duke University Press.
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EDITORIAL Philosophy and Race ……………………………………………………………..2COMMENTARY
Colonizing Citizenship
Françoise Vergès ……………………………………………………………………………….. 3ARTICLES
Fanon, Phenomenology, Race
David Macey …………………………………………………………………………………….. 8
Towards a Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment
Linda Martín Alcoff ………………………………………………………………………….. 15
Political Theory and the Multicultural Society
Bhikhu Parekh …………………………………………………………………………………. 27
Ethnicity and Species: On the Philosophy of the Multi-ethnic State in Japanese Imperialism
Naoki Sakai …………………………………………………………………………………….. 33REVIEWS
K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
Alessandra Tanesini …………………………………………………………………………. 46
Russell A. Berman, Enlightement or Empire: Colonial Discourse in German Culture
Robert J.C. Young ……………………………………………………………………………. 48
Charles Mills, The Racial ContractCharles Mills, Blackness Visible: Essays on Race and Philosophy
Barry Wilkins …………………………………………………………………………………… 51
Stephen Howe: Afrocentrism: Mythical Pasts and Imagined Homes
Carl Talbot ……………………………………………………………………………………….. 53
George Yancy, ed., African-American Philosophers: 17 Conversations
Stella Sandford ……………………………………………………………………………….. 55
Chetan Bhatt, Liberation and Purity: Race, New Religious Movements and the Ethics of Postmodernity
Stella Sandford ……………………………………………………………………………….. 57
Alain Grosrichard, The Sultanʼs Court: European Fantasies of the East
John Clarke …………………………………………………………………………………….. 58
Leela Gandhi, Postcolonial Theory: A Critical Introduction
Meena Dhanda ……………………………………………………………………………….. 59
E. San Juan, Jr, Beyond Postcolonial Theory
Christina Lupton …………………………………………………………………………….. 61
David Theo Goldberg, Racial Subjects: Writing on Race in America
Alessandra Tanesini …………………………………………………………………………. 61EXHBITION REVIEW
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