Should race matter? : unusual answers to the usual questions / David Boonin.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780521760867 (hardback)
- ISBN: 0521760860 (hardback)
- ISBN: 9780521149808 (paperback)
- ISBN: 0521149800 (paperback)
- Physical Description: x, 411 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Machine generated contents note: 1. Thinking in black and white; 2. Repairing the slave reparations debate; 3. Advancing the slave reparations debate; 4. One cheer for affirmative action; 5. Two cheers for affirmative action; 6. Why I used to hate hate speech restrictions; 7. Why I still hate hate speech restrictions; 8. How to stop worrying and learn to love hate crime laws; 9. How to keep on loving hate crime laws; 10. Is racial profiling irrational?; 11. Is racial profiling immoral?. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | 1. Thinking in black and white: an introduction to the moral questions that America's past raises about its present -- 2. Repairing the slave reparations debate: how I got into an argument with myself about David Horowitz and lost -- 3. Advancing the slave reparations debate: bonus objections, bonus responses, and a modest proposal -- 4. One cheer for affirmative action: why there's nothing wrong with abandoning racial preferences -- 5. Two cheers for affirmative action: why there's nothing wrong with not abandoning racial preferences, either -- 6. Why I used to hate hate speech restrictions: appeals to traditional exceptions to freedom of expression and why they all fail -- 7. Why I still hate hate speech restrictions: new and improved exceptions to freedom of expression and why they fail, too -- 8. How to stop worrying and learn to love hate crime laws: why objections to hate speech restrictions don't work as objections to hate crime laws -- 9. How to keep on loving hate crime laws: why other objections to hate crime laws don't work, either -- 10. Is racial profiling irrational?: the answer isn't black and white -- 11. Is racial profiling immoral?: a reluctant defense of America's least popular form of discrimination. |
Search for related items by subject
Subject: | Race relations. Slavery. Reparations for historical injustices. Affirmative action programs. Hate crimes. |
Available copies
- 1 of 1 copy available at Kirtland Community College.
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- 0 current holds with 1 total copy.
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Kirtland Community College Library | HT 152.1 .B666 2011 | 30543943 | General Collection | Available | - |
CHOICE_Magazine Review
Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
CHOICE
Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.
Written as an undergraduate text on applied ethics and race, this volume by Boonin (Univ. of Colorado, Boulder) uses a dialectic style to present a series of takes on the slave reparations debate, affirmative action, hate speech restrictions, hate crime laws, and racial profiling. In chapter 2, Boonin focuses on David Horowitz's objections to reparations, with a response in chapter 3. In chapter 4, the author defends abandoning racial preferences. A defense of keeping this policy follows in chapter 5. Boonin opposes both traditional and recent exceptions to free expression in chapters 6 and 7, to sustain his objection to hate speech restrictions. In chapters 8 and 9 he insists on important differences between hate speech and hate crimes, and argues against objections to the latter. The rationality and morality of racial profiling are discussed in chapters 10 and 11. Boonin very sensitively spells out the issues involved on both sides of these debates and clearly focuses on the problems they generate. This is an important book that will be useful in potentially heated classroom discussions on race and public policy. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower-division undergraduates and faculty. T. L. Lott San Jose State University