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Books and Journals
(with others) Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: Philosophical Dialogues Between Jorge J. E. Gracia and His Critics, edited by Ivan Jaksic, fifteen philosophers: Gracia, Alcoff, Appiah, Bernstein, Bloom, Garcia, Gonzalez, Gooding-Williams, Llorente, Mendieta, Nuccetelli, Outlaw, Pappas, Stavans, and Stigol. Columbia University Press, in press. Critical articles with Gracia's responses. Expected in June, 2015. APA Eastern Division session, Jan, 2016.
Forging People: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in Hispanic American and Latino/a Thought. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2011, xix, 349. Articles by Janet Burke, Ted Humphrey, Jose Antonio Aguilar, Oscar Marti, Arleen Salles, Diego von Vacano, Renzo Llorente, Amy Oliver, Elizabeth Millan, Ofelia Schutte, Ivan Jaksic, and Ernesto Velasquez.
Race or Ethnicity? On Black and Latino Identity. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007, xiv, 288. Articles by Linda Alcoff, Anthony Appiah, Robert Bernasconi, J. L. A. Garcia, Howard McGary, and others. This is the first collection of essays that addresses issues of both Black and Latino identity.
Surviving Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield, 2005, xxviii, 205 pp.
Hispanic/Latino Identity: A Philosophical Perspective. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000, xx, 236 pp.
Trans. into Spanish as: Identidad hispana/latina: Una perspectiva filosófica (Mexico City: Paidós, 2005).
Ed., Black Ethnicity, Latino Race Articles by Alcoff, Appiah, Bernasconi, Garcia, and others. In preparation.
Ed., with Pablo De Greiff, Hispanics/Latinos in the United States: Ethnicity, Race, and Rights. New York: Routledge, 2000, 282 pp.
Articles
"The Nature of Ethnicity, with Special Reference to Hispanic/Latino Identity," Public Affairs Quarterly 13, 1 (1999), 25-42.
"Hispanics, Philosophy, and the Curriculum," Teaching Philosophy 23, 3 (1999), 241-248.
"Affirmative Action for Hispanics? Yes and No," in Jorge J. E. Gracia and Pablo De Greiff, eds., Hispanics/Latinos in the US (New York: Routledge, 2000), pp. 201-221.
"Hispanic/Latino Ethnicity, Race and Rights," with Pablo DeGreiff, in Gracia and De Greiff, eds., Hispanics/Latinos in the United States (see section on books), pp. 1-20.
"Ethnic Labels and Philosophy: The Case of Latin-American Philosophy," Philosophy Today 43 (supplement 1999), 42-49.
Rep. in Eduardo Mendieta, ed., Latin American Philosophy: Currents, Issues, Debates (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2003), pp. 57-67.
"Hispanic/Latino Identity: Homogeneity and Stereotypes," Ventana Abierta 2, 8 (2000), 17-25.
Spanish trans. as "Identidad hispanica/latina: Homogeneidad y estereotipos," in collection of selected pieces from this journal commemorating the tenth anniversary of the journal's publication.
Reprint of the Spanish translation in Luis Leal and Victor Fuentes, eds., Cruzando puentes: Antologia de literatura latina. (Santa Barbara, CA: Centro for Chicano Studies, University of California, 2001), pp. 22-29.
"Response to the Critics of Hispanic/Latino Identity: Tahafut Al-Tahafut," Philosophy and Social Criticism 27, 2 (2001), 51-75.
"Respuesta a Bernstein y Mendieta," in Revista Internacional de Filosofia Politica 16 (2002), 188-192.
"Minorities in the Philosophical Marketplace," Metaphilosophy 33, 2 (2002), 535-551.
"Hispanic/Latino Culture in the US: Foreigners in Our Own Land," in Raul Fornet-Betancourt, Kulturen zwischen Tradition und Innovation (Frankfurt: IKO, 2001), pp. 94-112.
"The Oreo Phenomenon: Puzzles Posed by Race and Ethnicity," in Gary Nederman and Manuel Martin-Rodriguez, eds. Sites of Identity: Configurations of Space, Community, and Self (Ashgate, forthcoming).
"Hispanics in the United States," rep. in Susana Nucetelli and Gary Seay, eds., Latin American Philosophy. (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2004), pp. 302-307.
With Elizabeth Millan-Zaibert, "Affirmative Action," in Enciclopedia of Latinos.
"Hispanic Identity," in Jorge Gracia and Elizabeth-Millan Zaibert, eds., Latin American Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century (Buffalo, NY: Prometheus, 2004), pp. 289-311.
"Language Priority in the Education of Children: Pogge's Argument in Favor of English First for Hispanics," Journal of Social Philosophy (2004).
With William Irwin. "Is Morpheus Black?" in William Irwin, ed., The Matrix II and Philosophy.
"Individuation of Racial and Ethnic Groups: The Problems of Circularity and Demarcation," in Jorge J. E. Gracia, ed., Race or Ethnicity? (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2007), pp. 78-100.
"A Political Argument in Favor of Ethnic Names: A Response to Alcoff," Philosophy and Social Criticism 31, 4 (2005), 409-417.
"Racism: Positive or Negative?," The Monist 93, 2 (2010), 208-227.
"The Impact of Race and Ethnicity on Latin American Philosophy," volume edited by Eduardo Mendieta for Indiana University Press. Shorter Version reprint in Concordia.
"Die ethnisch definierte Nation hat ausgedient - aber nicht die Ethnizitat," in Susanne Stemmler, ed., Multikultur 2.0: Willkommen im Einwanderungsland Deutschland (Gottingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2011), 83-93
"Social Identities: Conflict and Resolution," in Edward Demenchonok and Keping Wang, eds., Intercultural Dialogue: In Search of Harmony in Diversity (Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2012), 97-119
"The Role of Race and Ethnicity in Latino/a Philosophy," in Eduardo Mendieta, ed., Latino/a Philosopher (Indianapolis, IN: Indiana University Press, in preparation)
"Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality: A Response," in Ivan Jaksic, ed., Debating Race, Ethnicity, and Latino Identity: A Philosophical Dialogue between Jorge Gracia and His Critics, in press. (with Susan Smith)
"Analytic Metaphysics: Race and Racial Identity," in volume edited by Linda Alcoff et al., in preparation.