| Description |
1 online resource (x, 231 pages) |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-225) and index. |
| Contents |
Preface; PREAMBLE; 1. DIFFERENCE DISCOURSE; 2. IDENTITIES AS COLLECTIVE ACTION; 3. "CULTURAL DISCRIMINATION"; 4. THE ENDS OF ANTI-DISCRIMINATION LAW; POSTSCRIPT: BEYOND DIFFERENCE; Notes; Index. |
| Summary |
What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices. Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that would attempt to apply civil rights protections to "cultural difference." Unlike many criticisms of multiculturalism, which worry about "reverse discrimination" or the erosion of core Western cultural values, the book's argument is primarily focused on the adverse effects of multicultural rhetoric and multicultural rights on their supposed beneficiaries. Ford argues that multicultural accounts of cultural difference do not accurately describe the practices of social groups. Instead these accounts are prescriptive: they attempt to canonize a narrow, parochial, and contestable set of ideas about appropriate group culture and to discredit more cosmopolitan lifestyles, commitments, and values. --From publisher's description. |
| Note |
Description based on print version record. |
| Access |
Access available to onsite users at SLQ, e-services members and Queensland public library (QPL) account holders. |
| Subject |
Multiculturalism.
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Intergroup relations.
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Multiculturalism -- Law and legislation.
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Discrimination -- Law and legislation.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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Discrimination -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst00894991
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Intergroup relations. (OCoLC)fst00976302
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Multiculturalism. (OCoLC)fst01028836
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Multiculturalism -- Law and legislation.
(OCoLC)fst01028840
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Culturele verschillen.
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Rassenvraagstuk.
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Multiculturalisme.
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Relation intergroupe.
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Discrimination.
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Culture.
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Droit.
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Identité raciale.
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Aspect politique.
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Electronic books.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Ford, Richard T. (Richard Thompson). Racial culture. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2005 0691119600 9780691119601 (DLC) 2004041465 (OCoLC)54007242 |
| ISBN |
9781400826308 (electronic bk.) |
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1400826306 (electronic bk.) |
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