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> Friday, May 2, 2008
> Stand Up
> The New Politics of Racial Uplift
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> A Public Philosophy Symposium
> May 2, 2008
> 9am to 5pm
> Temple University
> Kiva Auditorium and Tuttleman Learning Center
> Room 101
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> For a complete list of participants, schedule, and work by
> participants and material relevant to symposium themes, go to the
> conference website:
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> http ://www.temple.edu/philosophy/standup/
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> Purpose of Symposium
> The Millions More Movement, Cosby's 'call-outs,' and other recent
> trends renew an old approach to black political thought and
> practice. The racial uplift tradition tries to improve the
> conditions of black life by insisting on moral refinement and race-
> based organization. Uplift ideology and practice have a long and
> storied past, but critics of the tradition worry over its
> limitations. Some express concern that it is anti- democratic,
> intolerant, elitist, sexist, and heterosexist. Others think it
> focuses too much on personal morality and cultural pathology and
> not enough on social justice and political economy.
>
> The participants in the 'Stand Up!' symposium will think through
> the risks and rewards of this new racial uplift politics. This
> interdisciplinary exercise in public philosophy will explore the
> implications of a social phenomenon with broad ethical
> significance. The new politics of racial uplift emerges from a
> widely shared conviction that something is deeply wrong in American
> society. Our public philosophy conference will take this judgment
> seriously, and subject this politics to searching and critical
> scrutiny.
>
> Confirmed Participants include: Angela Dillard (Afroamerican and
> African Studies, University of Michigan), author of Guess Who's
> Coming to Dinner Now? Multicultural Conservatism in America Kenyon
> Farrow (writer, activist and board co- chair, Queers for Economic
> Justice), co-editor, Letters From Young Activists: Today's Rebels
> Speak Out Kevin Gaines (Afroamerican and African Studies and
> History, University of Michigan): author of Uplifting the Race
> Kathryn Gines (African American and Diaspora Studies and
> Philosophy, Vanderbilt University), founder, The Collegium of Black
> Women Philosophers Eddie Glaude (Religion and African American
> Studies, Princeton University), author of In a Shade of Blue:
> Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America Beverly Guy- Sheftall
> (Women's Studies, Spelman College), co-editor of Words of Fire: An
> Anthology of African-American Feminist Thought Joy James (Political
> Science and Africana Studies, Williams College), author of
> Transcending the Talented Tenth Adolph Reed (Political Science,
> University of Pennsylvania), author of Stirrings in the Jug: Black
> Politics in the Post-Segregation Era Jared Sexton (African American
> Studies, UC-Irvine), author of Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness
> and the Critique of Multiracialism Aisha Shahidah Simmons (activist
> and independent documentary filmmaker, Afrolez Productions),
> writer, producer, and director of "NO! The Rape Documentary" Ronald
> Sullivan (Harvard Law School), director, Harvard Criminal Justice
> Institute Paul C. Taylor (Philosophy, Temple University), author of
> Race: A Philosophical Introduction
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> Sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, Department of Philosophy,
> Provost's Office, Center for the Humanities at Temple, The
> Jamestown Project, and The Ira Lawrence Family Fund
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> Senior Fellow Paul C. Taylor is the Symposium Organizer
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