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"I'm Not a Racist, But." : The Moral Quandary of Race / Lawrence Blum.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781501701955
  • 9781501701962
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.8 21
LOC classification:
  • HT1523 .B58 2002
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "Racism": Its Core Meaning -- 2. Can Blacks Be Racist? -- 3. Varieties of Racial Ills -- 4. Racial Discrimination and Color Blindness -- 5. "Race": What We Mean and What We Think We Mean -- 6. "Race": A Brief History, with Moral Implications -- 7. Do Races Exist? -- 8. Racialized Groups and Social Constructions -- 9. Should We Try to Give Up Race? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in the racial domain reduces the term's power to evoke moral outrage. In "I'm Not a Racist, But.", Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally-charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of color can be racist, defines types of racism, and identifies debased and inappropriate usages of the term. Though racial insensitivity, racial anxiety, racial ignorance and racial injustice are, in his view, not "racism," they are racial ills that should elicit moral concern.Blum argues that "race" itself, even when not serving distinct racial malfeasance, is a morally destructive idea, implying moral distance and unequal worth. History and genetic science reveal both the avoidability and the falsity of the idea of race. Blum argues that we can give up the idea of race, but must recognize that racial groups' historical and social experience has been shaped by having been treated as if they were races.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. "Racism": Its Core Meaning -- 2. Can Blacks Be Racist? -- 3. Varieties of Racial Ills -- 4. Racial Discrimination and Color Blindness -- 5. "Race": What We Mean and What We Think We Mean -- 6. "Race": A Brief History, with Moral Implications -- 7. Do Races Exist? -- 8. Racialized Groups and Social Constructions -- 9. Should We Try to Give Up Race? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in the racial domain reduces the term's power to evoke moral outrage. In "I'm Not a Racist, But.", Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally-charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of color can be racist, defines types of racism, and identifies debased and inappropriate usages of the term. Though racial insensitivity, racial anxiety, racial ignorance and racial injustice are, in his view, not "racism," they are racial ills that should elicit moral concern.Blum argues that "race" itself, even when not serving distinct racial malfeasance, is a morally destructive idea, implying moral distance and unequal worth. History and genetic science reveal both the avoidability and the falsity of the idea of race. Blum argues that we can give up the idea of race, but must recognize that racial groups' historical and social experience has been shaped by having been treated as if they were races.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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