Women of Color and Philosophy: A Critical Reader

The Contributors vii

Acknowledgements xiii

Introduction 1

Part 1 Critique 23

1 “Discredited Knowledge” in the Nonfiction of Toni Morrison 25
Joy James

2 Cultural Alterity: Cross-cultural Communications and Feminist Theory in North-South Contexts 44
Ofelia Schutte

3 Exploring the Sources of western Thought 69
V. F. Cordova

4 General Introduction to the Project: The Enterprise of Socratic Metaethics 91
Adrian M. S. Piper

Part 2 Activism and Application 133

5 Interview with Angela Y. Davis 135
George Yancy

6 That Alchemical Bering Strait Theory! Or Introducing America’s Indigenous Sovereign Nations Worldviews to Informal Logic Courses 152
Anne Schulherr Waters

7 The Libertarian Role Model and the Burden of Uplifting the Race 168
Barbara Hall

8 Interracial Marriage: Folk Ethics in Contemporary Philosophy 182
Anita L. Allen

Part 3 New Directions 207

9 Asian Women: Invisibility, Locations, and Claims to Philosophy 209
Yoko Arisaka

10 On Judging Epistemic Credibility: Is Social Identity Relevant? 235
Linda Martin Alcoff

11 Cognitive Science and the Quest for a Theory of Properties 263
Dasiea Cavers-Huff

12 Descartes’ Realist Awake-Asleep Distinction and Naturalism 280
Naomi Zack

Select Bibliography 303

Index 311