Race and Racism

by Boxill, Bernard

• ISBN13: 9780198752677
• ISBN10: 0198752679
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2001-03-15
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

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 With an introduction exploring the themes and conflicting ideas present in the book, and including a previously unpublished piece on the alleged racism ofImmanuel Kant, this book will stimulate a critical understanding of the true meaning and far-reaching implications of an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.

Author Biography

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).

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(42)
Bernard Boxill
Race and Philosophic Meaning	43	(15)
Naomi Zack
Toward a Critical Theory of ``Race''	58	(25)
Lucius Outlaw
White Woman Feminist 1983-1992	83	(18)
Marilyn Frye
Does Race Matter?	101	(13)
Pierre L. van den Berghe
How Heritability Misleads about Race	114	(31)
Ned Block
Responses to Race Differences in Crime	145	(35)
Michael Levin
Rights, Human Rights, and Racial Discrimination	180	(13)
Richard A. Wasserstrom
Two Kinds of Discrimination	193	(45)
Adrian M. S. Piper
`Difference', Cultural Racism and Anti-Racism	238	(19)
Tariq Modood
The Heart of Racism	257	(40)
J. L. A. Garcia
Bakke's Case: Are Quotas Unfair?	297	(10)
Ronald Dworkin
Racism and Sexism	307	(37)
Richard A. Wasserstrom
Sexism and Racism: Some Conceptual Differences	344	(13)
Laurence Thomas
Group Autonomy and Narrative Identity: Blacks and Jews	357	(14)
Laurence Thomas
African Identities	371	(12)
Kwame Anthony Appiah
Social Movements and the Politics of Difference	383	(39)
Iris Marion Young
Race, Multiculturalism and Democracy	422	(26)
Robert Gooding-Williams
Kant and Race	448	(25)
Thomas E. Hill Jr.
Bernard Boxill
Notes on the Contributors	473	(2)
Further Reading	475	(4)
Index of Names	479