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Sprache und Kultur der Indogermanen : Akten der X. Fachtagung der Indogermanischen Gesellschaft Innsbruck, 22.-28. September 1996
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ISBN: 3851246683 9783851246681 Year: 1998 Volume: 93 Publisher: Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft,

Mír curad : studies in honor of Calvert Watkins
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ISBN: 3851246675 9783851246674 Year: 1998 Volume: 92 Publisher: Innsbruck: Universität Innsbruck. Institut für Sprachwissenschaft,

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Color Conscious
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ISBN: 1400810833 1282753126 9786612753121 1400822092 9781400810833 9781400822096 9780691026619 0691026610 0691059098 9780691059099 1400800080 1400814944 9781282753129 6612753129 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton, NJ

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In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; together they provide a compelling response to our nation's most vexing problem. Appiah begins by establishing the problematic nature of the idea of race. He draws on the scholarly consensus that "race" has no legitimate biological basis, exploring the history of its invention as a social category and showing how the concept has been used to explain differences among groups of people by mistakenly attributing various "essences" to them. Appiah argues that, while people of color may still need to gather together, in the face of racism, under the banner of race, they need also to balance carefully the calls of race against the many other dimensions of individual identity; and he suggests, finally, what this might mean for our political life. Gutmann examines alternative political responses to racial injustice. She argues that American politics cannot be fair to all citizens by being color blind because American society is not color blind. Fairness, not color blindness, is a fundamental principle of justice. Whether policies should be color-conscious, class conscious, or both in particular situations, depends on an open-minded assessment of their fairness. Exploring timely issues of university admissions, corporate hiring, and political representation, Gutmann develops a moral perspective that supports a commitment to constitutional democracy. Appiah and Gutmann write candidly and carefully, presenting many-faceted interpretations of a host of controversial issues. Rather than supplying simple answers to complex questions, they offer to citizens of every color principled starting points for the ongoing national discussions about race.

Color conscious : the political morality of race
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ISBN: 0691059098 Year: 1998 Publisher: Princeton (N.J.) : Princeton university press,

Whiteness of a different color : European immigrants and the alchemy of race
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ISBN: 9780674951914 0674063716 0674951913 9780674063716 Year: 1998 Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. London Harvard University Press

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"America's racial odyssey is the subject of this work of historical imagination. Matthew Frye Jacobson argues that race resides not in nature but in the contingencies of politics and culture. In ever-changing racial categories we glimpse the competing theories of history and collective destiny by which power has been organized and contested in the United States. Capturing the excitement of the new field of "whiteness studies" and linking it to traditional historical inquiry. Jacobson shows that in this nation of immigrants "race" has been at the core of civic assimilation: ethnic minorities in becoming American were reracialized to become Caucasian. He provides a counterhistory of how nationality groups such as the Irish or Greeks became Americans as racial groups like Celts or Mediterraneans became Caucasian." "Jacobson tracks race as a conception and perception, emphasizing the importance of knowing not only how we label one another but also how we see one another, and how that racialized vision has largely been transformed in this century."--Jacket

Tales of dark-skinned women : race, gender and global culture
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ISBN: 185728612X 9781857286120 0203981359 9780203981351 9781135362485 1135362483 1857286111 9781857286113 1280112050 9781280112058 9786610112050 6610112053 1135362475 Year: 1998 Publisher: London, UK ; Bristol, Pa., USA : UCL Press,

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