[Hamp-law] Book event: Toward a Political Philosophy of Race, Professor Falguni A. Sheth

[Jennifer Hamilton]

Please join us for a discussion this Tuesday, April 7th, with Dr. 
Falguni A. Sheth, Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory 
at Hampshire College.  Dr. Sheth will be discussing her new book, 
"Toward a Philosophical Philosophy of Race."  The event will take place 
from 5:30-6:30pm at Hampshire College in FPH 106.  Refreshments will be 
served.

Timely, controversial, and incisive, /Toward a Political Philosophy of 
Race /looks uncompromisingly at how a liberal society enables racism and 
other forms of discrimination. Drawing on the examples of the internment 
of U.S. citizens and residents of Japanese descent, of Muslim men and 
women in the contemporary United States, and of Asian Indians at the 
turn of the twentieth century, Falguni A. Sheth argues that racial 
discrimination and divisions are not accidents in the history of liberal 
societies. Race, she contends, is a process embedded in a range of legal 
technologies that produce racialized populations who are divided against 
other groups. Moving past discussions of racial and social justice as 
abstract concepts, she reveals the playing out of race, racialization of 
groups, and legal frameworks within concrete historical frameworks.

"The black experience has long been taken as paradigmatic for theorists 
of race across disciplines in the United States, and certainly in 
philosophy, where blacks constitute the largest racial minority. Thus 
Falguni Sheth's exploration of how this dominant paradigm may blind us 
to the multiple ways in which populations can be, and have been, 
racialized is a very valuable contribution. This is the first philosophy 
text on race to focus in detail on Arabs and Asians, and it is also one 
of the first to draw on continental theorists to examine the issue of 
race and political power." --- Charles W. Mills, author of /The Racial 
Contract/

For more details, please see:
http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61761

*Falguni A. Sheth* is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political 
Theory at Hampshire College and the coeditor (with David Colander and 
Robert E. Prasch) of /Race, Liberalism, and Economics/.

This event is sponsored by the Hampshire College Law Program and Pre-Law 
Society.  For more information, please contact Jennifer Hamilton at 
jhamilton at hampshire.edu.



-- 
Dr. Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
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