Race and Racism

Bernard Boxill (Curatore)

Oxford University Press, 2000

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 With an introduction exploring the themes and conflicting ideas present in the book, and including a previously unpublished piece on the alleged racism of Immanuel Kant, this book will stimulate a critical understanding of the true meaning and far-reaching implications of an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

• Curatore: Bernard Boxill
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Collana: Oxford Readings in Philosophy
• Anno: 2000
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 492 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 135 mm
• Peso: 539 gr.
• EAN: 9780198752677

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