| Description |
xiv, 202 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Pt. I. Theory. 1. What race thinking is. The language of race ; What we mean by "race": what do you mean, "we"? ; Modern radicalism: prehistory and background ; Power, racial formation, and method -- 2. Three challenges to race-thinking. The anti-racist challenge, take 1: isn't race-thinking unethical ; Classical racialism: history and background ; The challenge of human variation: isn't racial biology false? ; The challenge of social differentiation: isn't the race concept just in the way? -- 3. What races are: the metaphysics of critical race theory. After classical racialism: late modern racialism ; The US racial terrain today ; Varieties of racialism ; Ten questions and three alternatives accounts. -- Pt. II. Practice. 4. Existence, experience, elisions. Ethical eliminativism, for and against; or, the anti-racist challenge, take 2 ; Existence, identity, and despair ; In between: illusions of purity and interstitial peoples ; Experience, invisibility, and embodiment -- 5. The color question. Color and "courting": the ethic of miscegenation ; Color blindness and affirmative action. |
| Subject |
Race -- Philosophy.
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Race relations -- Philosophy.
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| ISBN |
0745628826 hb. |
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9780745628820 hb. |
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0745628834 paperback |
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9780745628837 paperback |
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