Sexual and Racial Discrimination Resources

Sexual and Racial Discrimination

39	"Racisms" Kwame Anthony Appiah	click on an author's name to go to her/his web page (if available)
40	"Sexual Harassment" Anita M. Superson
41	"Date Rape" Lois Pineau
42	"Men in Groups: Collective Responsibility for Rape" Larry May and Robert Strikwerda

Web Resources

Philosophical Essays and Interviews with Philosophers

Block, Ned. "How Heritability Misleads about Race." From Boston Review (1996). A critique of The Bell Curve.
Hypatia. Homepage of the leading journal of feminist philosophy.
Feminist Theory website, from the University of Vermont.
Fullinwider, Robert. "The Case for Reparations." A paper for Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. Argues that there is a reasonable case for reparations for blacks.
Haslanger, Sally. "Gender and Race: (What) Are They? (What) Do We Want Them To Be?" Nous (2000).
Hardwig, John. "Should Women Think in Terms of Rights?" Ethics (1984).
Lichtenberg, Judith, Suzanne Bianchi, Robert Wachbroit, and David Wasserman. "Counting Race and Ethnicity." A paper for Maryland's Institute for Philosophy and Public Policy. Explores practical questions of how to define race.
Mill, Charles. "The Continuing Importance of Race." Radio interview. [RealAudio]
Myers, Diana Tietjens. "Feminist Perspectives on the Self." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Society for Women in Philosophy. The homepage for the society. Includes links to numerous articles, readings lists, etc.
Tong, Rosemarie. "Feminist Ethics." Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
Zack, Naomi. "The Good Faith of the Invisible Man." Understanding the experience of racism.

Popular discussions

African Philosophy on the web. A collection of links from Canada. Links for African / African-American Philosophers, bibliographies, etc.
British law on racial and sexual discrimination.
Labor law on racial and sexual discrimination.
Third World Women. A site from About.com with numerous links to issues about the status of women in third world countries.
United Nation's Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.
UN World Conference on Racism
Women in work. Interview with Francine Blau. [RealAudio]

back to the home page