McGary, Howard, Jr. (Rutgers University)

Race and Social Justice

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents an analysis of the enduring problems of race and social justice in American life. This book examines African American alienation and exploitations, black reparations, collective responsibility, affirmative action, race and IQ, police discretion, racial integration and racial separatism, and the underclass question.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 328g
• ISBN-13: 9780631207214
• ISBN-10: 063120721X
• Artikelnr.: 21284530

Autorenporträt

Howard McGary is Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. He has published numerous articles on questions of distributive justice and philosophical issues raised by racism. He is the co-author of Between Slavery and Freedom: Philosophy and American Slavery (1992) and he serves on the editorial boards of the Philosophical Forum, Encyclopedia of Ethics, and Social Identities.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface.
Acknowledgments.
Introduction.
Part I: The Problem of Racism:.
1. Alienation and the African-American Experience.
2. Race and Class Exploitation.
3. Racial Integration and Racial Separatism: Conceptual Clarifications.
4. The African-American Underclass and the Question of Values.
Part II: The Response to Racism:.
5. Morality and Collective Liability.
6. Justice and Reparations.
7. Reparations, Self-Respect, and Public Policy.
8. Affirmative Action: A Review and Commentary.
Part III: Racism and its Remedies:.
9. The Race and IQ Controversy.
10. Police Discretion and Discrimination.
11. DuBois, the new Conservatism, and the Critique of African-American
Leadership.
12. Racism, Social Justice, and Interracial Coalitions.
Bibliography.
Index.

Rezensionen

"Calling the collection 'a model of informed and informing civildiscourse at its best that invites us to join in like fashion,'noted philosopher Lucius Outlaw of Haverford College praises McGaryas 'a journeyman scholar-teacher respected for (his) passionateengaging of some of the most challenging of the issues ofcontemporary social, political, and moral life.'" Lori Chambers,Rutgers Magazine

"The care with which he [McGary] presents the issues and therelevant arguments makes this an inviting text for undergraduate aswell as graduate courses." Ethics, vol. 3, July 2001.

"Blackwell has done a service to social philosophy andAfrican-American philosophy by bringing this collection ofimportant essays to print. Addressing problems of racism and thesearch for social justice in liberal political thought, theyprovide crucial insights that will revive the often politicallybankrupt discipline of political philosophy by highlightingdimensions of it that are most relevant to problems of our day."- Lewis Gordon, Brown University and the University of theWest Indies, at Mona, Jamaica, Author of Her Majesty OtherChildren

"Reed Howard McGary's essays in this book and you willexperience insightful discussion of issues of justice that willlikely challenge you by their compelling importance as well as bythe model of clarity, patience, thoughtfulness, and principledmoderation of passion that he invests in his discussions. Here is amodel of informed and informing civil discourse at its best invitesus to join in like fashion." - Lucius Outlaw, HaverfordCollege