Full Description
The eighteen essays in this new book deal with the meaning of two highly contested ideas: race and racism. Race is variously declared to be a self-evident fact of nature, a natural kind, a biological category, a political category, a social construction, an invention, and a fiction. Similarly, although racism is commonly defined as colour prejudice, some maintain that it is ill-will towards certain races; others that it is a belief, or sometimes an ideology or theory of racial superiority and inferiroity; and still others that it is the practice of unjust racial discrimination.
In this volume, Bernard Boxill has collected a wide range of analytical writing that discusses the nature of these controversial ideas. With an introduction exploring the themes and conflicting ideas present in the book, and including a previously unpublished piece on the alleged racism of Immanuel Kant, this book will stimulate a critical understanding of the true meaning and far-reaching implications of an understanding of race and racism.
As part of the successful Oxford Readings in Philosophy series, this book engages the reader with a range of ideas that will contribute to a greater understanding of race and racism.
Contents
Introduction ; 1. Race and Philosophic Meaning ; 2. Toward a Critical Theory of 'Race' ; 3. White Woman Feminist 1983-1992 ; 4. Does Race Matter? ; 5. How Heritability Misleads about Race ; 6. Responses to Race Differences in Crime ; 7. Rights, Human Rights, and Racial Discrimination ; 8. Two Kinds of Discrimination ; 9. Difference, Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism ; 10. The Heart of Racism ; 11. Bakke's Case: Are Quotes Unfair? ; 12. Racism and Sexism ; 13. Sexism and Racism: Some Conceptual Differences ; 14. Group Autonomy and Narrative Identity: Blacks and Jews ; 15. African Identities ; 16. Social Movements and the Politics of Difference ; 17. Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy ; 18. Kant and Race ; Notes on the Contributors ; Bibliography ; Index
