Toward a Political Philosophy of Race

"Falguni Sheth's Toward a Political Philosophy of Race is ... not only ambitious and impressive, but illustrates the sort of intellectual courage that could benefit philosophy as a discipline ... [it] offers us a way of understanding race that takes us beyond liberal political theory, race theory, and even Foucauldian discourse about the nature and workings of power in the political sphere." -- Social Theory and Practice

"The black experience has long been taken as paradigmatic for theorists of race across disciplines in the United States, and certainly in philosophy, where blacks constitute the largest racial minority. Thus Falguni Sheth's exploration of how this dominant paradigm may blind us to the multiple ways in which populations can be, and have been, racialized is a very valuable contribution. This is the first philosophy text on race to focus in detail on Arabs and Asians, and it is also one of the first to draw on continental theorists to examine the issue of race and political power." -- Charles W. Mills, author of The Racial Contract