"Paul C. Taylor provides an accessible guide to a well-traveled but still mysterious 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 thoroug…
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""There Are No Slaves in France": The Political Culture of Race and Slavery in the Ancient Regime examines the paradox of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution." "Black slaves who came to France as domestic servants of colon…
There Are No Slaves in France examines the paradoxical emergence of political antislavery and institutional racism in the century prior to the French Revolution. Sue Peabody shows how the political culture of late Bourbon France created ample opportunities for contestation over …
Focusing primarily on Americans' views of blackness, Davis provides cross-cultural comparisons to demonstrate how other countries' interpretations of who is black vary. He details and closely analyzes the history of the "one-drop rule," which states that any person having at lea…
"This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two world wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to biological but to cultural factors. Professor Bar…
"This fascinating study in the sociology of knowledge documents the refutation of scientific foundations for racism in Britain and the United States between the two world wars, when racial differences were no longer attributed to biological but to cultural factors. Professor Bar…
"In Race: The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western thinking that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But as Hannaford shows, race is n…
"In Race, The History of an Idea in the West, Ivan Hannaford guides readers through a dangerous engagement with an idea that so permeates Western that we expect to find it, active or dormant, as an organizing principle in all societies. But, Hannaford shows, race is not a univer…
"This work argues that race is integral to the conceptual, philosophical and material emergence of the modern nation state, and to its ongoing management"--Back cover.
"Emmanuel Chukwudi Eze collects into one convenient and controversial volume the most important and influential writings on race that the European Enlightenment produced." "In Enlightenment thought reason and civilization became associated with "white" people and northern Europe…
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means o…
In the past few years, a new generation of progressive intellectuals has dramatically transformed how law, race, and racial power are understood and discussed in America. Questioning the old assumptions of both liberals and conservatives with respect to the goals and the means o…
