The race card : how bluffing about bias makes race relations worse / Richard Thompson Ford.
2008
KF4757 .F68 2008 (Mapit)
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Title
The race card : how bluffing about bias makes race relations worse / Richard Thompson Ford.
Edition
1st ed.
Imprint
New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008.
Description
388 pages ; 24 cm
Formatted Contents Note
Racism without racists
The wild card : racism by analogy
Calling a spade a spade : defining discrimination
The clash of ends : contested goals
Post-racism : why the race card is a crisis of success.
The wild card : racism by analogy
Calling a spade a spade : defining discrimination
The clash of ends : contested goals
Post-racism : why the race card is a crisis of success.
Summary
As the label of "prejudice" is applied to more and more situations, it loses a clear and agreed-upon meaning. This makes it easy for self-serving individuals and political hacks to use accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other types of "bias" to advance their own ends. Law professor Ford brings sophisticated legal analysis, lively anecdotes, and plain old common sense to this heated topic, offering ways to separate valid claims from bellyaching. This is a call for us to treat racism as a social problem that must be objectively understood and honestly evaluated.--From publisher description.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 363-372) and index.
Location
STA
Call Number
KF4757 .F68 2008
Language
English
ISBN
9780374245757
0374245754
0374245754
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