When Colorblindness Isn't the Answer

Humanism and the Challenge of Race

Anthony B. Pinn (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

144 Seiten

2017
Pitchstone Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-63431-122-9 (ISBN)

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The future of the United States rests in many ways on how the ongoing challenge of racial injustice in the country is addressed. Yet, humanists remain divided over what if any agenda should guide humanist thought and action toward questions of race. In this volume, Anthony B. Pinn makes a clear case for why humanism should embrace racial justice as part of its commitment to the well-being of life in general and human flourishing in particular. As a first step, humanists should stop asking why so many racial minorities remain committed to religious traditions that have destroyed lives, perverted justice, and justified racial discrimination. Rather, Pinn argues, humanists must first confront a more pertinent and pressing question: why has humanism failed to provide a more compelling alternative to theism for so many minority groups? For only with a bit of humility and perspective—and a recognition of the various ways in which we each contribute to racial injustice—can we truly fight for justice.

Anthony B. Pinn is the Agnes Cullen Arnold Professor of Humanities, professor of religious studies, and founding director of the Center for Engaged Research and Collaborative Learning at Rice University. He is the first African American full professor to hold an endowed chair in the history of Rice University. He is also director of research for the Institute for Humanist Studies and is a member of the Board of Directors for the American Humanist Association. He is the author ofThe End of God-Talk and Writing God's Obituary, and he lives in Houston, Texas.

Erscheinungsdatum	24.05.2017
Reihe/Serie	Humanism in Practice
Zusatzinfo	Illustrations
Sprache	englisch
Maße	139 x 215 mm
Gewicht	195 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie des Mittelalters
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10	1-63431-122-1 / 1634311221
ISBN-13	978-1-63431-122-9 / 9781634311229
Zustand	Neuware