Research Guides: Virtual Core Bookshelf: Equity &amp; Global Identities

Book recommendations

Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud; Samuel Moyn
Publication Date: 2021
"The first Norton Critical Edition of Sigmund Freuds Civilization and Its Discontents features an annotated version of James Stracheys authoritative translation. Freuds landmark work explores the tension between society and its individuals and is considered critical in the development of the field of modern psychology. In addition to the translated text, the Norton Critical Edition of Civilization and Its Discontents includes a "Commentaries" section, providing a multitude of secondary sources on the historical context of the work, as well as criticism and exploration of its key elements. A "Further Reading" list is also included"--

From Wynne:

"These works on epistemology will also be useful for helping faculty who are revising courses and developing new courses for equity and global identities attributes of the new Core. I think some chapters may be particularly useful for stem and health sciences faculty whose programs have little room for extra courses. The best route for those faculty may be to re-think the epistemic grounding of their courses, what counts as credible knowledge, what groups benefit from that and what groups are left out. In the Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology, chapters 5 and 6 in Part I Historical Backgrounds, and chapters 21-25 on Science and Social Epistemology, may be most useful. In The epistemic life of groups : essays in the epistemology of collectives, STEM faculty might look at chapters in Part IV Philosophy of Science."

The epistemic life of groups : essays in the epistemology of collectives by edited by Michael S. Brady and Miranda Fricker
Publication Date: 2016
Groups engage in epistemic activity all the time, from the collective inquiry of scientific researchers to the deliberations of juries. Yet there is still relatively little philosophical work on collective epistemology. Eleven new essays explore this practice and its relation to epistemology, political philosophy, ethics, and philosophy of science.
The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology by Miranda Fricker (Editor); Peter J. Graham (Editor); David Henderson (Editor); Nikolaj J. L. L. Pedersen (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019
Edited by an international team of leading scholars, The Routledge Handbook of Social Epistemology is the first major reference work devoted to this growing field. The Handbook's 46 chapters, all appearing in print here for the first time, and written by philosophers and social theorists from around the world, are organized into eight main parts: Historical Backgrounds The Epistemology of Testimony Disagreement, Diversity, and Relativism Science and Social Epistemology The Epistemology of Groups Feminist Epistemology The Epistemology of Democracy Further Horizons for Social Epistemology With lists of references after each chapter and a comprehensive index, this volume will prove to be the definitive guide to the burgeoning interdisciplinary field of social epistemology.
Seeing Race Again by Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw (Editor); Luke Charles Harris (Editor); Daniel Martinez HoSang (Editor); George Lipsitz (Editor)
Publication Date: 2019
Every academic discipline has an origin story complicit with white supremacy. Racial hierarchy and colonialism structured the very foundations of most disciplines' research and teaching paradigms. In the early twentieth century, the academy faced rising opposition and correction, evident in the intervention of scholars including W. E. B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Carter G. Woodson, and others. By the mid-twentieth century, education itself became a center in the struggle for social justice. Scholars mounted insurgent efforts to discredit some of the most odious intellectual defenses of white supremacy in academia, but the disciplines and their keepers remained unwilling to interrogate many of the racist foundations of their fields, instead embracing a framework of racial colorblindness as their default position. This book challenges scholars and students to see race again. Examining the racial histories and colorblindness in fields as diverse as social psychology, the law, musicology, literary studies, sociology, and gender studies, Seeing Race Again documents the profoundly contradictory role of the academy in constructing, naturalizing, and reproducing racial hierarchy. It shows how colorblindness compromises the capacity of disciplines to effectively respond to the wide set of contemporary political, economic, and social crises marking public life today.