Racial Culture (eBook)

A Critique

Richard T. Ford (Autor)

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2009
248 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-2630-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Richard T. Ford is George E. Osborne Professor of Law at Stanford. He has published in numerous legal journals including the Harvard Law Review and Stanford Law Review. His is co-author of Local Government Law and The Legal Geographies Reader

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What is black culture? Does it have an essence? What do we lose and gain by assuming that it does, and by building our laws accordingly? This bold and provocative book questions the common presumption of political multiculturalism that social categories such as race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality are defined by distinctive cultural practices. Richard Ford argues against law reform proposals that would attempt to apply civil rights protections to "e;cultural difference."e; Unlike many criticisms of multiculturalism, which worry about "e;reverse discrimination"e; or the erosion of core Western cultural values, the book's argument is primarily focused on the adverse effects of multicultural rhetoric and multicultural rights on their supposed beneficiaries. In clear and compelling prose, Ford argues that multicultural accounts of cultural difference do not accurately describe the practices of social groups. Instead these accounts are prescriptive: they attempt to canonize a narrow, parochial, and contestable set of ideas about appropriate group culture and to discredit more cosmopolitan lifestyles, commitments, and values. The book argues that far from remedying discrimination and status hierarchy, "e;cultural rights"e; share the ideological presuppositions, and participate in the discursive and institutional practices, of racism, sexism, and homophobia. Ford offers specific examples in support of this thesis, in diverse contexts such as employment discrimination, affirmative action, and transracial adoption. This is a major contribution to our understanding of today's politics of race, by one of the most distinctive and important young voices in America's legal academy.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 10.1.2009
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Allgemeines / Lexika
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Adoption • Affirmative Action • African Americans • Anti-Discrimination Law • anti-racism • Ascribed status • attempt • black people • Censure • chauvinism • Civil Rights Act of 1964 • collective bargaining • Consideration • Cosmopolitanism • cultural assimilation • cultural conflict • Cultural diversity • Cultural genocide • Cultural Hegemony • Cultural Identity • cultural pluralism • cultural practice • Determination • disadvantage • discourse • Discrimination • disparate impact • Disparate treatment • distributive justice • dominant culture • Drucilla Cornell • Employment • employment discrimination • ethnic group • Exclusion • Gender Role • Hairstyle • harassment • Harvard Law School • Homophobia • Identity politics • Identity (social science) • Ideology • Immigration • Immutable characteristic • indictment • Institution • I Wish (manhwa) • Janet Halley • Kenji Yoshino • Lecture • Legislation • Lesbian • minority group • Morality • Multiculturalism • Nationality • Norm (social) • obstacle • Oppression • person of color • plaintiff • Political Correctness • Politics • Poverty • Precedent • Prejudice • presumption • protective custody • Public Policy • Race (human categorization) • racial hierarchy • racial integration • Racial segregation • Racism • racism in the united states • Randall Kennedy • Regulation • Requirement • Role • Self-Image • separatism • Sexism • Sexual orientation • social conflict • Social Group • social issue • Social Justice • Social Practice • social stigma • Society • Sociology • sodomy • Stanford Law School • Statute • Subculture • Suggestion • Symptom • Wealth • white people
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-2630-6 / 1400826306
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-2630-8 / 9781400826308