Critical Philosophy of Race: Beyond the USA

Whilst race and racialisation in the context of contemporary USA are themselves deeply nuanced, and it is not necessarily a bad thing that much of our current discourse in the philosophy of race focuses on that context, two deep concerns emerge from the possibility that we are paying disproportionate attention to the USA. First of all, we might be concerned that a strongly American focus in the philosophy of race affects our philosophical intuitions. The second worry that motivates these articles is not so much one of how we might add nuance to the important philosophical research on race that already exists, but a concern with the effect upon the social context in which the philosophical study of race currently takes place.