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[Alfred Kagan]

Fall 2003 Brown Bag Lecture Series
Marlin D. Paschal

The Reality of Race: Forgetting the Past, Without Moving Beyond History

This topic begins with the presupposition that racial identity has a 
formal reality that transcends the particularity of phenomenal 
experience (culture, discriminatory acts etc). Race, as formal 
reality, owes its origins to social convention, but does not require 
convention to sustain its actual existence. Race, as a transcendental 
entity, acquires a kind of self-promulgating character, which serves 
to order the life world, rather than being ordered by it. This essay 
seeks to explore the transcendental character of race and explain how 
it functions in relations to the life world and seeks to determine if 
we can ever move beyond it.

Monday, December 8, 2003
12:00 (Noon) -1:15 pm

Afro-American Studies & Research Program
1201 W. Nevada Street, Urbana, IL  (corner of Nevada and Goodwin)
(217) 333-7781 / Fax (217) 244-4809
www.aasrp.uiuc.edu
THIS LECTURE IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu
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