The Department of Philosophy will be holding a talk titled “Racism and Dehumanization” by David Livingstone Smith, who is Professor of Philosophy at University of New England. His recent books include On Inhumanity: Dehumanization and How to Resist It (Oxford University Press, 2020) and Making Monsters: The Uncanny Power of Dehumanization (Harvard University Press, 2021.) Here is the abstract for the talk:
Dehumanization, the attitude of conceiving of others as less than human, is intimately tied to race. Groups of people who are dehumanized are often first racialized. They are treated as members of an alien and inferior race. To understand why this is, we need to understand both how race works and how dehumanization works. In this talk, I will use examples of anti-Black and anti-Semitic violence to illustrate and explain the interface between racism and dehumanization.
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