Realism And Racism

Author : Bob Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 113456872X
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realism and Racism written by Bob Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions. This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. This approach offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research. This illustrated through two policy examples: an account of post war migration to the UK, and debates about trans-racial adoption in the UK and the USA.

Author : Michael O. Hardimon
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674975669
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Race written by Michael O. Hardimon and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2017-06-12 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.

Author : Bob Carter
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134568711
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Realism and Racism written by Bob Carter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There are continuing difficulties within social science surrounding concepts of race. This book suggests that these difficulties stem from the uncertain ontological and epistemological status of ideas about race, itself a consequence of the recognition that concepts of race have all but lost their relevance as sociologically significant descriptions. This book surveys ways in which social scientists have attempted to come to terms with this situation, before developing an alternative approach based on recent work by realist authors. This approach offers a radical revision of orthodox debates about race concepts, about the possibility of a social science and about the nature of empirical research. This illustrated through two policy examples: an account of post war migration to the UK, and debates about trans-racial adoption in the UK and the USA.

Author : Gregory S. Parks
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781595584823
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Critical Race Realism written by Gregory S. Parks and published by . This book was released on 2010-02-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Questions of differential treatment under the law for people of different races continue to play out in daily life as well as on the front page news. This book examines the psychology behind racial bias in the criminal justice system and offers practical solutions. Edited by brilliant young African-American legal scholars and social scientists, this anthology includes both seminal pieces on the topic as well as brand-new writing that deepens this exciting field of work. Richard Delgado, widely considered the leading figure in Critical Race Theory, provides the foreword.

Author : Timothy Joseph Golden
Publisher : SUNY Press
ISBN 13 : 1438485980
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racism and Resistance written by Timothy Joseph Golden and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2022-11-01 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African American legal theorist Derrick Bell argued that American anti-Black racism is permanent but that we are nevertheless morally obligated to resist it. Bell—an extraordinary legal scholar, activist, and public intellectual whose academic and political work included his employment as a young attorney with the NAACP and his pivotal role in the founding of Critical Race Theory in the 1970s, work he pursued until he died in 2011—termed this thesis “racial realism.” Racism and Resistance is a collection of essays that present a multidisciplinary study of Bell's thesis. Scholars in philosophy, law, theology, and rhetoric employ various methods to present original interpretations of Bell's racial realism, including critical reflections on racial realism’s relationship to theories of adjudication in jurisprudence; its use of fiction in relation to law, literature, and politics; its under-examined relationship to theology; its application in interpersonal relationships; and its place in the overall evolution of Bell’s thought. Racism and Resistance thus presents novel interpretations of Bell’s racial realism and enhances the literature on Critical Race Theory accordingly.

Author : Jeremy Pierce
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739175610
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Realist Metaphysics of Race written by Jeremy Pierce and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2014-12-11 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In A Realist Metaphysics of Race: A Context-Sensitive, Short-Term Retentionist, Long-Term Revisionist Approach, Jeremy Pierce defends a social kind view of racial categories. On this view, the biological features we use to classify people racially do not make races natural kinds. Rather, races exist because of contingent social practices, single out certain groups of people as races, give them social importance, and allow us to name them as races. Pierce also identifies several kinds of context-sensitivity as central to how racial categorization works and argues that we need racial categories to identify problems in how our racial constructions are formed, including the harmful effects of racial constructions. Hence, rather than seeking to eliminate such categories, Pierce argues that we should also make efforts to change the conditions that generate their problematic elements, with an eye toward retaining only the unproblematic aspects. A Realist Metaphysics of Race contains insights relevant not just to professional philosophers in metaphysics, philosophy of race, social philosophy, philosophy of language, and philosophy of science, but also to students and scholars working in sociology, biology, anthropology, ethnic studies, and political science.

Author : Lori Latrice Martin
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793648174
Total Pages : 157 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Racial Realism and the History of Black People in America written by Lori Latrice Martin and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-02-15 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Racial Realism and the History of Black People in America, Lori Latrice Martin demonstrates how racial realism is a key concept for understanding why and how black people continue to live between a cycle of optimism and disappointment in the United States. Central to her argument is Derrick Bell’s work on racial realism, who argued that the subordination of black people in America is permanent. Racial Realism includes historical topics, such as Reconstruction, race in the 20th century, and recent events like #BlackLivesMatter, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the killing of George Floyd. As the author lays out, at various times in American history, black people felt a sense of hopefulness and optimism that America would finally extend treasured American values to them only to find themselves marginalized. History shows that black people have had their expectations raised so many times only to find themselves deeply disappointed.

Author : Alana Lentin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509535721
Total Pages : 149 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Why Race Still Matters written by Alana Lentin and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2020-04-22 with total page 149 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Why are you making this about race?' This question is repeated daily in public and in the media. Calling someone racist in these times of mounting white supremacy seems to be a worse insult than racism itself. In our supposedly post-racial society, surely it’s time to stop talking about race? This powerful refutation is a call to notice not just when and how race still matters but when, how and why it is said not to matter. Race critical scholar Alana Lentin argues that society is in urgent need of developing the skills of racial literacy, by jettisoning the idea that race is something and unveiling what race does as a key technology of modern rule, hidden in plain sight. Weaving together international examples, she eviscerates misconceptions such as reverse racism and the newfound acceptability of 'race realism', bursts the 'I’m not racist, but' justification, complicates the common criticisms of identity politics and warns against using concerns about antisemitism as a proxy for antiracism. Dominant voices in society suggest we are talking too much about race. Lentin shows why we actually need to talk about it more and how in doing so we can act to make it matter less.

Author : John D. Skrentny
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691168121
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book After Civil Rights written by John D. Skrentny and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-24 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new approach to race in the workplace What role should racial difference play in the American workplace? As a nation, we rely on civil rights law to address this question, and the monumental Civil Rights Act of 1964 seemingly answered it: race must not be a factor in workplace decisions. In After Civil Rights, John Skrentny contends that after decades of mass immigration, many employers, Democratic and Republican political leaders, and advocates have adopted a new strategy to manage race and work. Race is now relevant not only in negative cases of discrimination, but in more positive ways as well. In today's workplace, employers routinely practice "racial realism," where they view race as real—as a job qualification. Many believe employee racial differences, and sometimes immigrant status, correspond to unique abilities or evoke desirable reactions from clients or citizens. They also see racial diversity as a way to increase workplace dynamism. The problem is that when employers see race as useful for organizational effectiveness, they are often in violation of civil rights law. After Civil Rights examines this emerging strategy in a wide range of employment situations, including the low-skilled sector, professional and white-collar jobs, and entertainment and media. In this important book, Skrentny urges us to acknowledge the racial realism already occurring, and lays out a series of reforms that, if enacted, would bring the law and lived experience more in line, yet still remain respectful of the need to protect the civil rights of all workers.

Author : Michael O. Hardimon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780674978447
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Race written by Michael O. Hardimon and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because science has shown that racial essentialism is false, and because the idea of race has proved virulent, many people believe we should eliminate the word and concept entirely. Michael Hardimon criticizes this thinking, arguing that we must recognize the real ways in which race exists in order to revise our understanding of its significance.