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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.<br>
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<span class="maintext">Timely, controversial, and incisive, <i>Toward
a Political Philosophy of Race </i>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.<br>
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“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 <i>The Racial Contract</i> <br>
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For more details, please see:<br>
</span><a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61761">http://www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=61761</a><br>
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<span class="maintext"><b>Falguni A. Sheth</b>
is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Political Theory at Hampshire
College and the coeditor (with David Colander and Robert E. Prasch) of <i>Race,
Liberalism, and Economics</i>.<br>
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This event is sponsored by the Hampshire College Law Program and
Pre-Law Society. For more information, please contact Jennifer
Hamilton at <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jhamilton@hampshire.edu">jhamilton@hampshire.edu</a>.<br>
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Dr. Jennifer A. Hamilton
Assistant Professor of Legal Studies
School of Social Science
Hampshire College
Franklin Patterson Hall 208
893 West Street
Amherst, MA 01002
(413) 559-5578 (o)
(413) 559-5620 (f)
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:jhamilton@hampshire.edu">jhamilton@hampshire.edu</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://hampedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Hamilton">https://hampedia.org/wiki/Jennifer_Hamilton</a>
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