Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity

Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity

Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics

Edited by: Iván Jaksić

Columbia University Press | 2015

https://doi.org/10.7312/jaks16944

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The philosopher Jorge J. E. Gracia engages fifteen prominent scholars on race, ethnicity, nationality, and Hispanic/Latino identity

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Jorge J. E. Gracia is the Samuel P. Capen Chair and SUNY Distinguished Profesor in the Department of Philosophy and Department of Comparative Literature at the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is the author of nineteen books and has edited another two dozen in such fields as metaphysics, interpretation, race, ethnicity, medieval philosophy, Latin American philosophy, and Hispanic/Latino issues.

Iván Jaksic is director of the Santiago Program for the Bing Overseas Studies Program at Stanford University. He is the author of The Hispanic World and American Intellectual Life, 1820–1880, as well as several books and essays on the intellectual history of the Americas. He has held academic appointments at the University of California, Berkeley; the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee; and the University of Notre Dame.

Reviews

Pluralistic and rich with provocative claims and valuable insights.... Highly recommended.

Charles W. Mills, Northwestern University:
Philosophical discussions of race have come a long way in the last twenty years, but they have been dominated by the black American experience. In a United States where Latinos are the largest ethnoracial minority, who will be central to the projected demographic shift to a nonwhite majority by the year 2040 or so, the marginalization of their experience and of Latino/Latin American Philosophy more generally is deplorable. Especially for readers unfamiliar with the literature, this collection of discussions and critiques of Jorge Gracia's work, together with his replies, will provide an invaluable introduction both to crucial philosophical issues of Latino identity and ethnoracial status, and to the writings of one of the major figures of the field, who has been thinking deeply and rigorously about these matters for decades now.

Naomi Zack, University of Oregon:
The leading scholars in this volume engage key ideas from Gracia's magisterial and comprehensive contributions to the field of race and ethnicity. They examine positions developed by Gracia on Hispanic/Latino identities and histories in terms of philosophy, race, ethnicity, and nationality, and they critique him on philosophy, metaphysics, society, identity, politics, and the descriptive-normative divide. Gracia's incisive responses succeed in refocusing and reanimating debate. Altogether, this work will be a classic for study and research on Hispanic/Latino identity as a vital part of the philosophy of race and ethnicity.

Robert Bernasconi, Penn State University:
Jorge J. E. Gracia is one of the preeminent theorists of Hispanic/Latino identity, as the distinguished philosophers who discuss his work in this volume confirm. To have these responses gathered in one place together with Gracia's own replies gives the reader a wonderful opportunity to reflect on both the character of ethnic labels and the career of a remarkable thinker.

José Medina, Vanderbilt University:
This book contains the best and most thorough defense of Gracia's Familial-Historical View of Hispanic identity and original arguments concerning the complex relations among race, ethnicity, and nationality; linguistic rights and Affirmative Action; and the identity, status, and future of Hispanic/Latin American/Latino philosophy.

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Preface Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	vii
Introduction Iván Jaksić Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Part I. Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Philosophy
1. Writing a Check That Philosophy Can’t Cash Lucius T. Outlaw Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	29
2. Mapping the Boundaries of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality Linda M. Alcoff Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	38
3. Race, Ethnicity, and Philosophy K. Anthony Appiah Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	48
4. Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Philosophy Lawrence Blum Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	56
5. Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, and Philosophy: A Response Jorge J. E. Gracia Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	65
Part II. Hispanic/Latino Identity
6. Is Being Hispanic an Identity? J. L. A. García Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	91
7. The Boundaries of Hispanic Identity Richard J. Bernstein Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	106
8. Hispanic Identity, Its Origin, and Hispanic Philosophers Robert Gooding-Williams Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	114
9. The Role of Culture in Hispanic Identity Gregory Pappas Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	122
10. The Language Prism Ilan Stavans Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	131
11. The Second Reconquista Eduardo Mendieta Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	138
12. Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Response Jorge J. E. Gracia Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	147
Part III. Hispanics/Latinos and Philosophy
13. Hispanics/Latinos, Labels, and Latino Philosophy Renzo Llorente Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	183
14. Ethnic Philosophy and Latin American Philosophy Susana Nuccetelli Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	195
15. Latino and Latin American Philosophy María Cristina González and Nora Stigol Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	203
16. Affirmative Action for Latinos Howard McGary Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	215
17. Hispanics/Latinos and Philosophy: A Response Jorge J. E. Gracia Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	219
Closing Thoughts Jorge J. E. Gracia Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	247
Appendix. Original Panels and Discussions Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	251
References Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	253
Contributors Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	263
Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	267

Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity

Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics

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