A Theory of Race

This document was uploaded by one of our users. The uploader already confirmed that they had the permission to publish it. If you are author/publisher or own the copyright of this documents, please report to us by using this DMCA report form.

Simply click on the Download Book button.

Yes, Book downloads on Ebookily are 100% Free.

Sometimes the book is free on Amazon As well, so go ahead and hit "Search on Amazon"

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race,В Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options.

Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand it as an entirely social phenomenon.

Author(s): Joshua Glasgow
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2009

Language: English
Commentary: 71524
Pages: 183
City: New York
Tags: Антропология;Физическая (биологическая) антропология;Этническая антропология;

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Preface......Page 10
1 The Race Debate......Page 12
2 Dispatches from the Armchair: Thinning Out the Concept of Race......Page 31
3 Methodology: How Should We Figure Out the Shape of Racial Discourse?......Page 49
4 The Contours of Racial Discourse......Page 70
5 Breaking Nature’s Bones......Page 91
6 Constructivism, Revisionism, and Anti-Realism......Page 124
7 Reconstructionism......Page 144
Afterword......Page 166
References......Page 167
Index......Page 178