"What is race? What is ethnicity? Should we think of them as
identities? Can they be effectively individuated? How are they
related? How do the relations between them influence pressing
issues concerned with social identity, gender, racism,
assimilation, exploitation, justice, the law, and public policy?
And how are the answers to these questions affected by the Black
and Latino experience in the United States" From the Preface
This collection of new essays explores the relation between race
and ethnicity and its social and political implications. Although
much work has been done on the philosophy of race in the past
century in the United States, the concept of ethnicity has only
recently awoken the interest of American philosophers, and the
relations between race and ethnicity remain largely unexamined.
The discussion is divided into two parts dealing, on the one
hand, with the nature and the relation between race and ethnicity
and, on the other, with the social consequences of the complex
relations between them. Part I explores in particular the debated
topic of racial and ethnic identities: Does it make sense to speak
of racial and ethnic identities, and especially of black and Latino
identities? And if it does make sense, how should these identities
be conceptualized, and how are they related to gender? Part II
examines how race and ethnicity have influenced the lot of some
social groups in significant ways: How do racially defined
institutions deal with racial assimilation? How do different
conceptions of race and ethnicity influence public policy and
various forms of racism? How can exploited racial and ethnic groups
be effectively recognized? And what is the role of affect in social
justice as dispensed by the courts?
Contributors: Linda Martin Alcoff, Syracuse University;K.
Anthony Appiah, Princeton University;Robert Bernasconi, University
of Memphis;J. Angelo Corlett, San Diego State University;J. L. A.
Garcia, Boston College;Jorge J. E. Gracia, University at
Buffalo;Howard McGary, Rutgers University;Eduardo Mendieta, Stony
Brook University;Susana Nuccetelli, University of Texas Pan
American;Kenneth Shockley, University at Buffalo;Diego A. von
Vacano, Texas A & M University;Naomi Zack, University of
Oregon"
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