Grant Silva

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Marquette University

In the United States today, much interpersonal racism is driven by corrupt forms of self-preservation. Drawing from Jean- Jacques Rousseau, I refer to this as self-love racism. The byproduct of socially-induced racial anxieties and perceived threats to one’s physical or social wellbeing, self-love racism is the protective attachment to the racializ...

This essay explores the extent to which comparative philosophy can assist decolonial struggle. In order to accomplish this task, I offer not only a description of philosophy's colonization but also an account of how this discipline remains subject to the coloniality of knowledge. In short, insofar as race, gender, class, and sexuality are considere...

Drawing from the Black Lives Matter movement and Du Bois’s BLACK RECONSTRUCTION, this short article articulates the criticism of police violence at the heart of the George Floyd protests. It explains how the lives and livelihoods of law enforcement agents remain invested in white supremacy and images of black criminality while also criticizing the...

This chapter views the resurgence of anti-immigrant fervor in the United States as the legacy of white supremacy. The ability to hate is a necessity for some. Since there remains much opprobrium associated with explicit acts of racism and race-based hatred, the hatred of immigrants provides an outlet for those whose sense of self and community is p...

Entry on Xenophobia in El Diccionario de Injusticias (The Dictionary of Injustice), ed. Carlos Pereda et al. (México, Siglo Veintiuno Editores), 805-810. Overview of the concept, current relevance, and relationship to racism, nativism, anti-immigrant sentiment and more.

Abstract This article offers a response to Michael J. Monahan's engagement with and criticism of Grant Silva's article “Racism as Self-Love.” So as to demonstrate how Monahan's idea of “ur-contempt” fits alongside the author's project and supplements his attempt to challenge the variety of forms of moral obfuscation employed by white nationalists a...

An introduction to liberation philosophy aimed at introductory courses in Latin American and Latinx philosophy.

This short article lays the foundation for a theory of migratorial disobedience and explains how pro-border advocates fetishize immigration law.

This essay offers an account of the philosophical significance of liberation and prescribes the special place the idea of liberation ought to hold in the context of inter-American philosophical dialogue. Drawing from Latin American liberation philosophy, as well as philosophical and theoretical discourses and debates that can be considered part of...

The new immigration legislation will not achieve its ostensible goal. The criteria it proposes for new immigrants thinly conceal its racist motivations.

A critical review essay, this work explains the methodological, material, and ideological reasons for why "diversity" initiatives in philosophy face an uphill battle.

This work explores the increasing militarization of borders throughout the world, particularly the United States border with Mexico. Rather than further rhetoric of "border security," this work views the increases in guards, technology and the building of walls as militarized action. The goal of this essay is to place the onus upon states to justif...

This essay explores the intersection of racism, racial embodiment theory and the recent hostility aimed at immigrants and foreigners in the United States, especially the targeting of people of Latin American descent and Latino/as. Anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner sentiment is racist. It is the embodiment of racial privilege for those who wield it...