Lexington Books
Pages: 208
Trim: 6 x 8¾
978-1-4985-3464-2 • Hardback • August 2017 • $90.00 • (£69.00)
978-1-4985-3466-6 • Paperback • September 2019 • $39.99 • (£31.00)
978-1-4985-3465-9 • eBook • August 2017 • $38.00 • (£29.00)
Helen Ngo is lecturer in philosophy at Deakin University.
Introduction
Chapter One: Racist Habits: Bodily Gesture, Perception, and Orientation
Chapter Two: The Lived Experience of Racism and Racialized Embodiment
Chapter Three: Die Unheimlichkeit: The Racialized Body not-at-Home
Chapter Four: Racism's Gaze: Between Sartre's Being-Object and Merleau-Ponty's Intertwining
Conclusion
Helen Ngo has written a thought-provoking and highly engaging book. She weaves together, in careful and astute readings, the philosophies of Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Heidegger with recent phenomenologically-oriented work in philosophy of race, in particular Linda Martín Alcoff's, George Yancy's, and my own work. Her account of habit as holding and held, her critical reformulation of 'sedimentation' as active receptivity, and her theorization of the bodily work, stress and affectivity of managing and anticipating racialization are keen analyses that take phenomenology of race—and phenomenology more generally—further and open up new and exciting spaces for thinking.
— Alia Al-Saji, McGill University