Race by Paul C. Taylor
Brand: Polity Press
Product Description
In Race A Philosophical Introduction Second Edition Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a welltravelled but stillmysterious area of the contemporary social landscape. As in the first edition the book blends metaphysics and social philosophy analytic philosophy and pragmatic philosophy of experience. In this thoroughly updated and revised volume Taylor outlines the main features and implications of racethinking while engaging the ideas of such important figures as Linda Alcoff K. Anthony Appiah W. E. B. Du Bois Michel Foucault Sally Haslanger and Howard Winant. The result is a comprehensive but accessible introduction to philosophical race theory and to a nonbiological and situational notion of race. The book unfolds in a sequence of five chapters each devoted to one of the following questions What is racethinking Don t we know better than to talk about race now Are there any races What is it like to have a racial identity And how important ethically is colorblindness On the way to answering these questions Race takes up topics like mixedrace identity white supremacy the relationship between the race concept and other social identity categories and the impact of racethinking on our erotic and romantic lives. The second edition s new concluding chapter explores the racially fraught issues of policing immigration and global justice and interrogates the thought that Barack Obama has ushered in a postracial age. This volume is suitable for the educated general reader as well as for students and scholars in ethnic studies philosophy sociology and other related fields. show more
Condition : New
Author : Paul C. Taylor
Weight : 512
Publisher : Polity Press
Language : English
EAN : 9780745649665
ISBN10 : 0745649661
Format : Paperback Softback
Date of Publication : 20110318
Place of Publication : United Kingdom
Pagination : 240 Pages
Dimensions : 229 X 152 X 19