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Special Volume 2 (2009) AESTHETICS AND RACE: NEW PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES

Introduction

Introduction
Monique Roelofs

I. Looks and Images

Othering the Other: The Spectacle of Katrina for our Racial Entertainment Pleasure
Mariana Ortega

Mixed-Race Looks
Ronald Sundstrom

II. Framing Encounters

Sensation as Civilization: Reading/Riding the Taxicab
Monique Roelofs

Encountering the Other: Aesthetics, Race and Relationality
Mickaella Perina

III. Taste

The Divine Geometry of Chocolate: Artist's Essay
Mariángeles Soto-Díaz

In but not of, of but not in: On Taste, Hipness, and White Embodiment
Robin James

IV. The Global and the Cosmopolitan

Toward a Development of a Cosmopolitan Aesthetic
Nalini Bhushan

The Hijab and the Sari: The Strange and the Sexy between Colonialism and Global Capitalism
Falguni A. Sheth

Ethics and Politics

The Last King of Scotland or the Last N----r on Earth? The Ethics of Race on Film
Paul C. Taylor

Red, Gold, Black, and Green: Black Nationalist Aesthetics
Crispin Sartwell

The Empire Sings Back: Aesthetics, Politics, and Postcolonial Whimsy
Namita Goswami