The Resource Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
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- Summary
- David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by slave reparations, affirmative action, hate crime laws and racial profiling
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (424 pages)
- Note
- The bias-elimination argument
- Contents
-
- Cover; Should Race Matter?; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Thinking in Black and White; WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND CONTESTED ALL OVER?; BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE; DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (BLACK) HISTORY; THE STATE OF THE UNION(S); WHAT WOULD SOCRATES DO?; 2 Repairing the Slave Reparations Debate; IV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; THE UNJUST ENRICHMENT ARGUMENT; Why the Argument Isn't So Bad; Why the Argument Isn't So Good, Either; THE COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; Step One: The Compensation Principle
- Step Two: Applying the Compensation Principle to the PastStep Three: From Past Claimants to Present Claimants; Step Four: From Past Debtors to Present Debtors; Step Five: Checking the Balance; DAVE'S TOP TEN LIST OF OBJECTIONS TO SLAVE REPARATIONS; White Slaves, Black Masters, Arab Traders; I There Is No Single Group Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery.; The Legacy of Slavery -- Everyone's a Winner!; II There Is No Single Group That Benefited Exclusively from Slavery.; The Few and the Many; III Only A Minority Of White Americans Owned Slaves, While Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them
- The Immigrant's ComplaintIV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; Faulty Precedents; V The Historical Precedents Used to Justify the Reparations Claim Do Not Apply, and the Claim Itself Is Based on Race Not Injury.; Failures of Individual Character; VI The Reparations Argument Is Based on the Unsubstantiated ClaimThat All African-Americans Suffer from the Economic Consequences of Slavery and Discrimination.; The Victimization Message
- VII The Reparations Claim Is One More Attempt to Turn African-Americans into Victims. It Sends a Damaging Message to the African-American Community and to Others. The Check's Already in the Mail; VIII Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid.; White Sacrifice, Black Ingratitude; IX What about the Debt Blacks Owe to America?; They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us; X The Reparations Claim Is A Separatist Idea That Sets African-Americans against the Nation That Gave Them Freedom.; 3 Advancing the Slave Reparations Debate; GOVERNMENTS AREN'T PEOPLE
- FORGIVE THE FOUNDING FATHERS, FOR THEY KNEW NOT WHAT THEY DIDCOULDN'T HAVE DONE OTHERWISE; IT'S A BLACK THING -- YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND; And here is Shelby Steele:; And Dinesh D'Souza:; FISHING FOR ANSWERS IN THE GENE POOL; BETTER THAN NOTHING; COMPENSATION COMPLICATIONS; AMERICA 2.0; PAYING THE BILL; WHOSE STRIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?; REPARATIONS FOR EVERYONE?; A PROPOSAL; 4 One Cheer for Affirmative Action; CONFESSIONS OF A WHITE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY; THE UNFAIR DISADVANTAGE ARGUMENT; THE (OTHER) COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; THE APPEAL TO DIVERSITY; THE NEED FOR ROLE MODELS
- Isbn
- 9781139187671
- Label
- Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
- Title
- Should Race Matter?
- Title remainder
- Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
- Subject
-
- Affirmative action programs
- Hate crimes
- Hate crimes
- PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Race relations
- Race relations
- Affirmative action programs
- Reparations for historical injustices
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Slavery
- Slavery
- Reparations for historical injustices
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by slave reparations, affirmative action, hate crime laws and racial profiling
- Cataloging source
- EBLCP
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Boonin, David
- Dewey number
- 305.8
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- HT1521 .B634 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
-
- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Race relations
- Slavery
- Reparations for historical injustices
- Affirmative action programs
- Hate crimes
- PHILOSOPHY
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- SOCIAL SCIENCE
- Affirmative action programs
- Hate crimes
- Race relations
- Reparations for historical injustices
- Slavery
- Label
- Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
- Note
- The bias-elimination argument
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Should Race Matter?; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Thinking in Black and White; WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND CONTESTED ALL OVER?; BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE; DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (BLACK) HISTORY; THE STATE OF THE UNION(S); WHAT WOULD SOCRATES DO?; 2 Repairing the Slave Reparations Debate; IV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; THE UNJUST ENRICHMENT ARGUMENT; Why the Argument Isn't So Bad; Why the Argument Isn't So Good, Either; THE COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; Step One: The Compensation Principle
- Step Two: Applying the Compensation Principle to the PastStep Three: From Past Claimants to Present Claimants; Step Four: From Past Debtors to Present Debtors; Step Five: Checking the Balance; DAVE'S TOP TEN LIST OF OBJECTIONS TO SLAVE REPARATIONS; White Slaves, Black Masters, Arab Traders; I There Is No Single Group Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery.; The Legacy of Slavery -- Everyone's a Winner!; II There Is No Single Group That Benefited Exclusively from Slavery.; The Few and the Many; III Only A Minority Of White Americans Owned Slaves, While Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them
- The Immigrant's ComplaintIV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; Faulty Precedents; V The Historical Precedents Used to Justify the Reparations Claim Do Not Apply, and the Claim Itself Is Based on Race Not Injury.; Failures of Individual Character; VI The Reparations Argument Is Based on the Unsubstantiated ClaimThat All African-Americans Suffer from the Economic Consequences of Slavery and Discrimination.; The Victimization Message
- VII The Reparations Claim Is One More Attempt to Turn African-Americans into Victims. It Sends a Damaging Message to the African-American Community and to Others. The Check's Already in the Mail; VIII Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid.; White Sacrifice, Black Ingratitude; IX What about the Debt Blacks Owe to America?; They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us; X The Reparations Claim Is A Separatist Idea That Sets African-Americans against the Nation That Gave Them Freedom.; 3 Advancing the Slave Reparations Debate; GOVERNMENTS AREN'T PEOPLE
- FORGIVE THE FOUNDING FATHERS, FOR THEY KNEW NOT WHAT THEY DIDCOULDN'T HAVE DONE OTHERWISE; IT'S A BLACK THING -- YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND; And here is Shelby Steele:; And Dinesh D'Souza:; FISHING FOR ANSWERS IN THE GENE POOL; BETTER THAN NOTHING; COMPENSATION COMPLICATIONS; AMERICA 2.0; PAYING THE BILL; WHOSE STRIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?; REPARATIONS FOR EVERYONE?; A PROPOSAL; 4 One Cheer for Affirmative Action; CONFESSIONS OF A WHITE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY; THE UNFAIR DISADVANTAGE ARGUMENT; THE (OTHER) COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; THE APPEAL TO DIVERSITY; THE NEED FOR ROLE MODELS
- Control code
- 782876956
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (424 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781139187671
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613378088
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 337808
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)782876956
- Label
- Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions
- Note
- The bias-elimination argument
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Cover; Should Race Matter?; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Thinking in Black and White; WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND CONTESTED ALL OVER?; BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE; DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (BLACK) HISTORY; THE STATE OF THE UNION(S); WHAT WOULD SOCRATES DO?; 2 Repairing the Slave Reparations Debate; IV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; THE UNJUST ENRICHMENT ARGUMENT; Why the Argument Isn't So Bad; Why the Argument Isn't So Good, Either; THE COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; Step One: The Compensation Principle
- Step Two: Applying the Compensation Principle to the PastStep Three: From Past Claimants to Present Claimants; Step Four: From Past Debtors to Present Debtors; Step Five: Checking the Balance; DAVE'S TOP TEN LIST OF OBJECTIONS TO SLAVE REPARATIONS; White Slaves, Black Masters, Arab Traders; I There Is No Single Group Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery.; The Legacy of Slavery -- Everyone's a Winner!; II There Is No Single Group That Benefited Exclusively from Slavery.; The Few and the Many; III Only A Minority Of White Americans Owned Slaves, While Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them
- The Immigrant's ComplaintIV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; Faulty Precedents; V The Historical Precedents Used to Justify the Reparations Claim Do Not Apply, and the Claim Itself Is Based on Race Not Injury.; Failures of Individual Character; VI The Reparations Argument Is Based on the Unsubstantiated ClaimThat All African-Americans Suffer from the Economic Consequences of Slavery and Discrimination.; The Victimization Message
- VII The Reparations Claim Is One More Attempt to Turn African-Americans into Victims. It Sends a Damaging Message to the African-American Community and to Others. The Check's Already in the Mail; VIII Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid.; White Sacrifice, Black Ingratitude; IX What about the Debt Blacks Owe to America?; They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us; X The Reparations Claim Is A Separatist Idea That Sets African-Americans against the Nation That Gave Them Freedom.; 3 Advancing the Slave Reparations Debate; GOVERNMENTS AREN'T PEOPLE
- FORGIVE THE FOUNDING FATHERS, FOR THEY KNEW NOT WHAT THEY DIDCOULDN'T HAVE DONE OTHERWISE; IT'S A BLACK THING -- YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND; And here is Shelby Steele:; And Dinesh D'Souza:; FISHING FOR ANSWERS IN THE GENE POOL; BETTER THAN NOTHING; COMPENSATION COMPLICATIONS; AMERICA 2.0; PAYING THE BILL; WHOSE STRIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?; REPARATIONS FOR EVERYONE?; A PROPOSAL; 4 One Cheer for Affirmative Action; CONFESSIONS OF A WHITE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY; THE UNFAIR DISADVANTAGE ARGUMENT; THE (OTHER) COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; THE APPEAL TO DIVERSITY; THE NEED FOR ROLE MODELS
- Control code
- 782876956
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (424 pages)
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9781139187671
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Other control number
- 9786613378088
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 337808
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)782876956
Subject
- Affirmative action programs
- Hate crimes
- Hate crimes
- PHILOSOPHY -- Ethics & Moral Philosophy
- Race relations
- Race relations
- Affirmative action programs
- Reparations for historical injustices
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology | Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies
- Slavery
- Slavery
- Reparations for historical injustices
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