Achieving Our Humanity
The Idea of a Postracial Future

Emmanuel Eze argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity. This text explores this post-racial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and, most importantly, our future.

Does 'race' make us human? Drawing upon the experience of being racialized as 'black' for the first time while living in the United States and England, Nigerian born Emmanuel Eze argues that racial identification is not essential to our humanity. If we can achieve, or seriously commit to, a goal of equality for all, Eze believes that it is possible for humankind to overcome its racial antagonisms and move toward a future in which race has little significance. Achieving Our humanity explores this post-racial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and, most importantly, our future.

Title page
Dedication page
Preface
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
PART I Arguing with the Past
1. The Modern Invention of Race
2. Hume, Race, and Reason
3. Race: A Transcendental?
Part II This Past Must Address its Future
4. Negritude: Der humanismus der anderen Menschen
5. Black Is, Black Ain't: African Philosophy Without a Portfolio
6. Achieving our Humanity
Postscript
Bibliography
Index