
Race and Racism
Bernard Boxill(Editor)
Oxford University Press
Published on 21. December 2000
Book
Paperback/Softback
492 pages
978-0-19-875267-7 (ISBN)
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 With an introduction exploring the themes and conflicting ideas present in the book, and including a previously unpublished piece on the alleged racism of Immanuel Kant, this book will stimulate a critical understanding of the true meaning and far-reaching implications of an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.
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 With an introduction exploring the themes and conflicting ideas present in the book, and including a previously unpublished piece on the alleged racism of Immanuel Kant, this book will stimulate a critical understanding of the true meaning and far-reaching implications of an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.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 29 mm
Weight
591 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-875267-7 (9780198752677)
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Person
Bernard Boxill has devoted his professional life to philosophical analysis of policies related to race and racism. He is currently Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and has previously taught at the University of California Santa Barbara and the University of South Florida. Professor Boxill is also the author of Blacks and Social Justice (Rowman and Littlefield: 1984, 1992).
Content
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