lecture 6: Professor Alberto Urquidez
on Chp. 5: “Evoking Race (To Counter Race-Based Oppression); Or, Adversarial Groups as Anabsolute”
Professor Urquidez, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Religion at James Madison University in Fall 2023, has a major area of interest in nature of racism. To this end, his research is moving toward decolonial thought insofar as it increasingly seems to him to shed considerable light on the nature of racism. He is also interested in debates that intersect with this interest, such as the so-called "Oppression Olympics" debate.
Upcoming works include “Anti-Ethics as Insurrectionist Ethics: An Analysis of the Normative Foundations of Philosophies Born of Struggle,” in Insurrectionist Ethics: Radical Perspectives on Social Justice, eds. Jacoby A. Carter and Darryl L. Scriven and “White Individualism and the Problem of White Co-optation of the Term ‘Racism’” (Radical Philosophy Review). His monograph is (Re-) Defining Racism: A Philosophical Analysis. (Palgrave Macmillan). You can read more about Urquidez on his person website here.
Suggested Further Readings
McBride III, Lee A. Ethics and Insurrection: A Pragmatism for the Oppressed. Bloomsbury
Publishing, 2021.
Cited in McBride, Chapter 5: Evoking Race
Frye, Marilyn. Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory. Berkeley: The Crossing Press,
1983. [Cited by McBride in the Introduction]
Harris, Leonard, and Lee A. McBride III. A Philosophy of Struggle: The Leonard Harris Reader.
Edited by Lee A. McBride III. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.
Lugones, María. Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions.
New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2003.
Outlaw, Lucius T. “Rehabilitate Racial Whiteness?” In What White Looks Like, edited by George
Yancy, 175–88. New York: Routledge, 2004.
Sullivan, Shannon. “In Defense of Separation.” In Revealing Whiteness: The Unconscious Habits
of Racial Privilege, 167–85. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2006.
Sullivan, Shannon. “Transaction and the Dynamic Distinctiveness of Races.” In Living Across
and Through Skins: Transactional Bodies, Pragmatism, and Feminism, 157–70.
Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2001.
Cited in my presentation
Curry, Tommy J. “Will the Real CRT Please Stand Up? The Dangers of Philosophical
Contributions to Critical Race Theory.” The Cut 2, no. 1 (2009): 1–47.
Jardina, Ashley. White Identity Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Silva, Grant J. “Racism as Self-Love.” Radical Philosophy Review 22, no. 1 (2019): 85–112.
https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev201913193.
Recommended Readings (on white identity / white racism)
Bonilla-Silva, Eduardo. Racism Without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of
Racial Inequality in America. 5th ed. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018.
Doane, Ashley W., and Eduardo Bonilla-Silva. White Out: The Continuing Significance of
Racism. New York: Routledge Press, 2003.
Doane, Ashley W. “What Is Racism? Racial Discourse and Racial Politics.” Critical Sociology
32, no. 2–3 (2006): 255–74.
Gallagher, Charles. “White Racial Formation: Into the Twenty-First Century.” In Critical White
Studies, edited by Richard Delgado and Jean Stefancic. Philadelphia: Temple University
Press, 1997. [Cited by Lucius Outlaw]
Jardina, Ashley. White Identity Politics. Cambridge University Press, 2019.
Silva, Grant J. “Racism as Self-Love.” Radical Philosophy Review 22, no. 1 (2019): 85–112.
https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev201913193.
Urquidez, Alberto G. “White Individualism and the Problem of White Co-Optation of the Term
‘Racism.’” Radical Philosophy Review 25, no. 2 (2022): 161–90.
https://doi.org/10.5840/radphilrev2022117124.