Theory of Race

AvJoshua Glasgow

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

2 319 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar. Fri frakt över 249 kr.

Fler format och utgåvor

Häftad

651 kr

E-bok

746 kr

E-bok

746 kr

Beskrivning

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options.Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand it as an entirely social phenomenon.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-12-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 13 mm
Vikt:520 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:192
Förlag:Taylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN:9780415990721

Utforska kategorier

Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

University of California, Berkeley, USA

Recensioner i media

"Glasgow’s book is a lucid, measured, and extremely valuable contribution to current discourse about race. It will go into the canon of serious analysis of race which has to be consulted by careful scholars." - Naomi Zack, University of Oregon"Joshua Glasgow’s blend of argumentation, analysis, and experimental philosophy is deeply engaging and thought-provoking. His arguments about the conservation of race, its reality, the meaning of ordinary racial terms, and the folk conception of race will be a reference point for debates within the philosophy of race for years to come."- Ronald Sundstrom, University of San Francisco"Glasgow has written a very readable and useful book on race theory. . . . In each section he gives definitions and explanations that are helpful and insightful. This is an important book for introducing the concepts, theories, and methodologies involved in race discussions."- L.L. Lovern, Valdosta State University, CHOICE, Vol. 46, No. 11, August 2009

Innehållsförteckning

Preface The Race Debate Dispatches from the Armchair: A Thinning Out the Concept of Race Methodology: How Should We Figure Out the Shape of Racial Discourse? The Contours of Racial Discourse Breaking Nature’s Bones Constructivism, Revisionism, and Anti-Realism Reconstructionism Afterword