Race and Racism

Alcoff here offers an analysis of racism and a path toward anti-racism that puts the history of colonialism at the center. The current rise of ethno-nationalism on both sides of the Atlantic is focused on migrants as the source of nearly every social problem. She argues that the far right can only be forestalled by directly addressing the Replacement Theory and the difficult implications of colonialism's continuing effects on global relations. White identities have been based in false histories, yet the truly varied experiences of whites are not well represented in the myths that grounded racial supremacy. Race and Racism maintains that If we face the truth about our histories, and understand them with more accuracy and nuance, we can formulate a way forward in unity.

Linda Martín Alcoff is Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York.
Her books include Rape and Resistance (2018), The Future of Whiteness (2015), and Visible Identities: Race, Gender and the Self (2006), which won the Frantz Fanon Award.
In 2012 she was elected President of the American Philosophical Association, in 2021 she was named by Academic-Influence.com as one of the ten most influential philosophers today, and in 2023 she was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.