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Cover -- Race or Ethnicity? -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Preface -- Race or Ethnicity? An Introduction -- PART I Racial and Ethnic Identity -- 1. Does Truth Matter to Identity? -- 2. Racial and Ethnic Identity? -- 3. Individuation of Racial and Ethnic Groups -- 4. Ethnicity, Race, and the Importance of Gender -- 5. Ethnic Race -- 6. What Is an Ethnic Group? -- PART II Racism,Justice, and Public Policy -- 7. Racial Assimilation and the Dilemma of Racially Defined Institutions -- 8. Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms -- 9. Recognizing the Exploited -- 10. Racial Justice, Latinos, and the Supreme Court -- 11. Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy -- 12. Race and Political Theory -- Bibliography -- Index

Farewell to Cuba -- Good morning, America (1961-1962) -- Hungry in Miami -- A gate to the real America -- Foreigner in a foreign land (1962-1965) -- Surviving evangelical fundamentalism (1962-1965) -- Knowing myself (1962-1965) -- Make love, not war (1965-1966) -- Becoming a medievalist (1966-1969) -- Pilgrimage to Europe (1962-1971) -- Landing a job, with verve -- Buffalo department of philosophy (1971-1973) -- The vocation and profession of philosophy -- Two alternative research programs (1971-1974) -- Medieval philosophy (1975-1985) -- Latin American philosophy in the United States (1939-1985) -- From rookie to chair (1980-1986) -- Beyond medieval and Latin American philosophy (1990-2000) -- The call of ethnic, racial, and national identities (2000-present) -- A place for literature and the arts (2005 to present) -- From hispanic to latino and latinx (2000 to present) -- Return to philosophy through its history (1990-2000) -- A paradigm of courage (1971-1976) -- Epilogue: with a diamond in my mind.

"Forging People explores the way in which Hispanic American thinkers in Latin America and Latino/a philosophers in the United States have posed and thought about questions of race, ethnicity, and nationality, and how they have interpreted the most significant racial and ethnic labels used in Hispanic America in connection with issues of rights, nationalism, power, and identity. Following the first introductory chapter, each of the essays addresses one or more influential thinkers, ranging from Bartolome de Las Casas on race and the rights of Amerindians; to Simon Bolívar's struggle with questions of how to forge a nation from disparate populations; to modern and contemporary thinkers on issues of race, unity, assimilation, and diversity. Each essay carefully and clearly presents the views of key authors in their historical and philosophical context and provides brief biographical sketches and reading lists, as aids to students and other readers."Latin American philosophy has a long history of engagement with issues of race, ethnicity, and nationality. To date, however, there has been no volume that focused on the contributions of the major figures in the Latin American tradition, to illustrate their connections, and to illuminate the context in which much of their work occurred. This volume fills that gap and takes an important step in remedying this shortcoming in the existing philosophical literature, and also in the literature of related fields such as Latin American studies, ethnic studies, and the cross-disciplinary work of race, ethnicity, and nationality." --Manuel Vargas, University of San Francisco "--

A first-of-its-kind book that seriously and profoundly examines what it means philosophically to be Latino and where Latinos fit in American society. Offers a fresh perspective and clearer understanding of Latin American thought and culture, rejecting answers based on stereotypes and fear Takes an interdisciplinary approach to the philosophical, social, and political elements of Hispanic/Latino identity, touching upon anthropology, history, cultural studies and sociology, as well as philosophy Written by Jorge J. E. Gracia, one of the most influential thinkers of Hispanic/Latino descent.

Against race, ethnicity, and nationality -- Conceptual foundations -- Ethnicity -- Race -- Nationality -- Surviving race, ethnicity, and nationality.

The presence and impact of Hispanics/Latinos in the United States cannot be ignored. Already the largest minority group, by 2050 their numbers will exceed all the other minority groups in the United States combined. The diversity of this population is often understated, but the people differ in terms of their origin, race. language, custom, religion, political affiliation, education and economic status. The heterogeneity of the Hispanic/Latino population raises questions about their identity and their rights: do they really constitute a group? That is, do they have rights as a group, or just a