Diversity and Community An Interdisciplinary Reader

by Alperson, Philip

• ISBN13: 9780631219477
• ISBN10: 0631219471
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-12-30
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

Diversity and Community: An Interdisciplinary Reader is a collection of newly-commissioned essays that explore the notion of community in its many theoretical, practical, and cultural manifestations.The book examines the nature of community, the relation of individual and group identity to community norms and values, and the possibilities for cross-cultural understanding.Throughout, the volume deals with issues confronting many diverse communities including African, African-American, Asian-American, Native American, Latin-American, Anglo- and Franco-Canadian, Canadian Aboriginal, Japanese, gay and lesbian, computer-mediated, and counter-culture communities.Including contributions from thinkers such as Martha Nussbaum, Jean Bethke Elsthain, D.A. Masolo, Mary Hawkesworth, Lewis Gordon, Maria Lugones, Crispin Sartwell, Duane Champagne, and Frank Cunningham, as well as work by several new theorists, this book is a solid, comprehensive investigation into an important issue.

Author Biography

Philip Alperson is Professor of Philosophy at Temple University. He is the editor of several books including The Philosophy of the Visual Arts (1992), What Is Music? An Introduction to the Philosophy of Music (1994), and Musical Worlds: New Directions in the Philosophy of Music (1998). He is also the editor of The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors	vii
Preface	xii
Introduction: Diversity and Community	1	(30)
Philip Alperson
Part I: Community and Its Contestations	31	(98)
Communities and Community: Critique and Retrieval	33	(14)
Jean Bethke Elshtain
Christopher Beem
Community at the Margin	47	(11)
Crispin Sartwell
Impure Communities	58	(7)
Maria Lugones
Identities: The Dynamical Dimensions of Diversity	65	(23)
Chuck Dyke
Carl Dyke
From Village to Global Contexts: Ideas, Types, and the Making of Communities	88	(28)
D. A. Masolo
Obligations Across Generations: A Consideration in the Understanding of Community Formation	116	(13)
Lewis R. Gordon
Part II: Community, Constitutive Identities, and Resisting Subjects	129	(118)
Citizenship or Transgression?: Dilemmas of the US Movement for Lesbian/Gay Rights	131	(10)
Arlene Stein
Diversity, Inequality, and Community: African Americans and People of Color in the United States	141	(26)
J. Blaine Hudson
Renewing American Indian Nations: Cosmic Communities and Spiritual Autonomy	167	(15)
Duane Champagne
Nations and Nationalism: The Case of Canada/Quebec	182	(27)
Frank Cunningham
Love, Care, and Women's Dignity: The Family as a Privileged Community	209	(22)
Martha Nussbaum
Community and Society, Melancholy and Sociopathy	231	(16)
Osborne Wiggins
Michael A. Schwartz
Part III: Community, Culture, and Education	247	(88)
The Role of Art in Sustaining Communities	249	(16)
Marcia Muelder Eaton
Images of Community in American Popular Culture	265	(24)
Eileen John
Nancy Potter
Virtual Communities: Chinatowns Made in America	289	(14)
Gary Y. Okihiro
Villages, Local and Global: Observations on Computer-Mediated and Geographically Situated Communities	303	(20)
Samuel Oluoch Imbo
The University as a Universe of Communities	323	(12)
Mary Hawkesworth
Index	335