In 1908, American philosopher Josiah Royce foresaw the future. Race
questions and prejudices, he said, "promise to become, in the near
future, still more important than they have ever been before." Like
his student W. E. B. Du Bois in Souls of Black Folk (1903), Royce
recognized that the problem of the next century would be, as Du
Bois put it, "the problem of the color line." The twentieth century
saw vast changes in race relations, but even after the election of
the first African-American U.S. president, questions of race and
the nature of community persist. Though left out of the mainstream
of academic philosophy, Royce's conception of community
nevertheless influenced generations of leaders who sought to end
racial, religious, and national prejudice. Royce's work provided
the conceptual starting place for the Cultural Pluralism movement
of the 1920s and 1930s, and his notion of the Beloved Community
influenced the work and vision of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the
civil rights movement. Communities, whether they are understood as
racial or geographic, religious or scientific, Royce argued, are
formed by the commitments of individuals to causes or shared
ideals. This starting point-the philosophy of loyalty-provides a
means to understand the nature of communities, their conflicts, and
their potential for growth and coexistence. Just as this work had
relevance in the twentieth century in the face of anti-Black and
anti-immigrant prejudice, Royce's philosophy of loyalty and
conception of community has new relevance in the twenty-first
century. This new edition of Royce's Race Questions, Provincialism,
and Other American Questions includes a new introduction to Royce's
philosophy of loyalty and the essays included in the volume, and a
second introduction connecting Royce's work with contemporary
discussions of race. The volume also includes six supplementary
essays by Royce (unavailable since their initial publication before
1916) that provide background for the original essays, raise
questions about his views, and show the potential of those views to
inform other discussions about religious pluralism, the philosophy
of science, the role of history, and the future of the American
community.
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