This volume adds a new dimension to current research on race theory by examining its historical roots in the works of major Western philosophers.

Contributors. Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Distinction Without a Difference? Race and Genos in Plato (Rachana Kamtekar) 2. Ethnos in the Politics: Aristole and Race (Julie K. Ward) 3. Medieval Muslim Philosophers on Race (Paul-A. Hardy) 4. Patriarchy and Slavery in Hobbes's Political Philosophy (Tommy L. Lott) 5. "An Inconsistency not to be Excused": On Locke and Racism (William Uzgalis) 6. Locke and the Dispossession of the American Indian (Kathy Squadrito) 7. Between Primates and Primitives: Natural Man as the Missing Link in Rousseau's Second Discourse (Francis Moran III) 8. Kant as an Unfamiliar Source of Racism (Robert Bernasconi) 9. "The Great Play and Fight of Forces": Nietzsche on Race (Daniel W. Conway) 10. Liberalism's Limits: Carlyle and Mill on "The Negro Question" (David Theo Goldberg) 11. Heidegger and the Jewish Question: Metaphysical Racism in Silence and Word (Berel Lang) 12. Sartre on American Racism (Julien Murphy) 13. Sartrean Bad Faith and Antiblack Racism (Lewis R. Gordon) 14. Beavoir and the Problem of Racism (Margaret A. Simons) 15. Dewey's Philosophical Approach to Racial Prejudice (Gregory Fernando Pappas) Index.