On Race and Philosophy

<p><strong><em>On Race and Philosophy</em></strong> is a collection of essays written and published across the last twenty years which focus on matters of race philosophy and social and political life in the West in particular in the US. These important writings trace the author's continuing efforts not only to confront racism especially within philosophy but more importantly to work out viable conceptions of raciality and ethnicity that are empirically sound while avoiding chauvinism and invidious ethnocentrism. The hope is that such conceptions will assist efforts to fashion a nation-state in which racial and ethnic cultures and identities are recognized and nurtured contributions to a more just and stable democracy.</p>