The critical philosophy of race consists in the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the world. Critical philosophy of race is a critical enterprise in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the pseudosciences of old-fashioned biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism summarily eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical enterprise because of its engagement with traditional philosophical questions and in its readiness to engage critically some of the traditional answers.

The journal "Critical Philosophy of Race" is dedicated to the philosophical examination of issues raised by the concept of race, the practices and mechanisms of racialization, and the persistence of various forms of racism across the globe. Critical philosophy of race is critical in three respects: it opposes racism in all its forms; it rejects the outdated pseudosciences of biological racialism; and it denies that anti-racism and anti-racialism can simply eliminate race as a meaningful category of analysis. Critical philosophy of race is a philosophical endeavor because it engages with traditional philosophical questions and is prepared to critically examine some of the traditional answers.

《Critical Philosophy of Race》期刊致力于对种族概念所引发的问题、种族化的实践与机制，以及各种形式的种族主义在全球范围内的持续存在进行哲学探讨。批判种族哲学在三个方面具有批判性：它反对所有形式的种族主义；它拒绝过时的生物种族主义伪科学；并且它否认反种族主义和反种族主义立场可以简单地消除种族作为一个有意义的分析类别。批判种族哲学是一项哲学事业，因为它涉及传统哲学问题，并准备批判性地探讨一些传统答案。

Critical Philosophy of Race

Abstract The opening chapter provides a broad survey of the contributions to critical philosophy of race that have been made by continental philosophy in general and phenomenology and existentialism in particular. Whereas Sartre and Fanon initially explored the insights to be won from a focus on the lived experience of anti-Semitism and racism, as a result of the struggle against colonialism their focus shifted toward racism as a system. Once systemic racism is highlighted, the importance of historical investigations quickly becomes apparent: the groundbreaking work of Hannah Arendt and Michel Foucault is highlighted.

Robert Bernasconi

种族批判哲学

Subject Social and Political Philosophy Collection: Oxford Scholarship Online

Dedication

奉献

Abstract Race is often discussed as though it were tied to a rigid racial essentialism, but, for long periods of time, race has functioned predominantly as a border concept. That is to say, it has served as a dynamic fluid concept whose core lies not at the center but at its edges—hence the focus throughout much of modern racial thinking on policing the boundaries between the races where racial mixing has occurred. The focus falls especially on the legal, scientific, and philosophical discussions of racial classification in the United States, ranging from the definitions found in laws passed in Colonial Virginia at the turn of the eighteenth century through Virginia’s 1924 Act to Preserve Racial Integrity. Consideration is also given to the way in which the United States imposed its own rigid systems of classifications on Mexicans and Puerto Ricans.

Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process

种族化过程中的交叉线

Abstract Jean-Paul Sartre’s Critique of Dialectical Reason and Frantz Fanon’s The Wretched of the Earth both sought to offer accounts of colonialism as a form of systemic racism. They did so starting from lived experience, but they understood that accounts of lived experience remain fundamentally unintelligible when abstracted from the material system in which that experience is located. This is true even for those who share that experience. Lived experience becomes concrete only in the light of the material system that produces it, while the material system remains opaque without the illumination brought to it by concrete lived experience. They shared the conviction, first, that only dialectics can bring these two together and, second, that the colonial system is only fully revealed in revolutionary praxis.

Existentialism against Colonialism

存在主义对抗殖民主义

Abstract The core of Frantz Fanon’s Black Skin, White Masks lies not in the famous fifth chapter, “The Lived Experience of the Black,” but in the sixth chapter, “The Negro and Psychopathology.” Fanon there does much more than clarify his critique of certain tendencies within psychoanalysis. In accord with what he called the book’s “progressive infrastructure,” he advanced the argument far beyond what he had arrived at earlier in the book. So, for example, he significantly modified some of the criticisms of Sartre that he had introduced in the fifth chapter, while recognizing that some of those criticisms would stand against him if he continued to maintain them. Furthermore, he clarified what Fanon called “the solution” to the Black’s alienation.

Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology

弗朗茨·法农与精神病理学

ABSTRACT This article offers a philosophical exploration of, and critical engagement with, the antiracist slogan “I understand that I will never understand. However, I stand.” Drawing on Charles Mills’s discussions of white ignorance and Édouard Glissant’s conception of the “right to opacity,” it first offers several interpretations and philosophical reconstructions of the claim that white allies “understand that they will never understand,” reading this as potentially articulating either an epistemic failure or a kind of ethical self-limitation. It then draws on the work of Saidiya Hartman to offer a caution about the affirmation and naturalization of this delimited understanding as its ambiguity threatens to reinvoke and re-entrench certain racist conceptions already present within an antiblack context.

Eyo Ewara

“I Understand That I Will Never Understand”: White Ignorance, Anti-Racism, and the Right to Opacity

“我明白我将永远无法理解”：白人无知、反种族主义与透明度的权利

Kevin J. Harrelson

Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays

种族批判哲学：论文集

ABSTRACT The shifting dynamics of racial domination across historical contexts present a problem for critical philosophy of race. Much of the literature has focused on answering the question of “What is race?” as the solution to the problem of dynamic variability. In what follows, this article proposes that a better solution should begin with answering the question “What must the world be like for race to shift appearances across contexts?” Answering the latter question recapitulates the classic tension between appearance and reality. A core feature of racial domination is that it abstracts from social relations by presenting them as natural. Drawing on the tradition of critical theory from Karl Marx to Roy Bhaskar, this article argues that the task of critical philosophy of race is primarily explanatory rather than moral. The wrongness of racial domination follows from the critical elucidation of how a given society systemically induces the misrecognition of social conditions and thus blocks the realization of emancipatory agency. By presenting a clearer picture of what the world is like, critical philosophy of race can better aid our capacity for self-emancipation.

Abbreviation	Crit. Philos. Race
Journal Impact	1.27
Quartiles(Global)	ETHNIC STUDIES(Q2)

ISSN	2165-8684, 2165-8692
h-index	10

Publication Information	Publisher: Penn State University Press，Publishing cycle: ，Journal Type: journal，Open Access Journals: No
Basic data	Year of publication: 2017，Proportion of original research papers: 100.00%，Self Citation Rate:0.00%， Gold OA Rate: 0.00%

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Critical Philosophy of Race

Dedication

Crossed Lines in the Racialization Process

Existentialism against Colonialism

Frantz Fanon and Psychopathology

“I Understand That I Will Never Understand”: White Ignorance, Anti-Racism, and the Right to Opacity

Critical Philosophy of Race: Essays

“Without Losing Sight of the Concrete”: Critical and Metacritical Theories of Race

Guest Editor’s Introduction

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