Living Alterities: Phenomenology, Embodiment, and Race

Contents......Page 6
Acknowledgments......Page 8
Race and the Relevance of Embodiment......Page 10
Embodiment in General......Page 11
Embodiment in its Particularity......Page 14
Phenomenology......Page 17
The Collection of Essays......Page 19
Notes......Page 24
Chapter 1: Materializing Race......Page 28
“Materialism” in Marxist Theory......Page 29
Alcoff on Materialism......Page 32
Race as Material: Differential Access to Economic Opportunities and Wealth......Page 33
Race as Material: A (Social) Ontological Indicator......Page 39
Notes......Page 47
Introduction......Page 52
Clicking Sounds......Page 57
Race as Lived......Page 59
Black Body as “Thing”......Page 61
The Elevator Scenario......Page 63
Conclusion: Being in Crisis......Page 68
Notes......Page 71
Chapter 3: Race/Gender and the Philosopher’s Body......Page 74
Understanding the History of the Particularities of Race, Gender, and Philosophy......Page 78
A History of the Black Woman’s Body and Mind......Page 81
Beethoven and the Philosopher’s Body......Page 84
Notes......Page 86
Introduction......Page 88
Undoing Culture......Page 94
Notes......Page 104
Chapter 5: Shame and Self-Revision in Asian American Assimilation,......Page 112
The Politics of Assimilation: Preliminary Thoughts......Page 113
Incorporative Assimilation and Liberal Orientalism......Page 118
Emotion, Self-Evaluative Emotion, and Phenomenology......Page 121
Identity Assimilation, Emotions, and Strategies of Self-Making......Page 128
Notes......Page 134
Chapter 6: A Phenomenology of Hesitation: Interrupting Racializing Habits of Seeing......Page 142
1. A Phenomenology of Racializing Vision......Page 145
2. Racializing Affect......Page 149
3. Hesitation and Affect......Page 151
4. Hesitation and Bodily “I Can”......Page 159
5. A Phenomenology of Critical-Ethical Vision......Page 164
Notes......Page 171
Chapter 7: Hometactics: Self-Mapping, Belonging, and the Home Question......Page 182
Part I: Belonging, Location, and Multiplicitous Selfhood......Page 184
Part II: Hometactics......Page 190
Notes......Page 195
Chapter 8: Walling Racialized Bodies Out: Border Versus Boundary at La Frontera......Page 198
Edges Matter......Page 199
Two Main Forms of Edge......Page 200
Border Versus Boundary in the Evolution of La Frontera......Page 201
Constituting the Full Spectrum......Page 206
When Borders Become Boundary-Like......Page 209
The Fate of Borders......Page 211
The Intertwining of Borders and Boundaries......Page 213
Racializing and Racialized Bodies at the Border......Page 215
Notes......Page 219
Chapter 9: Pride and Prejudice: Ambiguous Racial, Religious, and Ethnic Identities of Jewish Bodies......Page 222
The Overdetermination of Jewish Bodies......Page 226
Notes......Page 237
Introduction......Page 242
Phenomenology and the Body......Page 243
The Body Generates Space and Time......Page 245
Responsibility for a Situation......Page 251
The Benefits of Whiteness in a Situation......Page 254
Notes......Page 257
Chapter 11: The Future of Whiteness......Page 264
I. Demographic Realities......Page 265
II. The Experience of Whiteness......Page 267
III. A Relational Substance......Page 272
IV. A Realistic Realism......Page 274
V. White Double Consciousness......Page 280
Notes......Page 287
Contributors......Page 292
Index......Page 296