Race or Ethnicity? : : On Black and Latino Identity / / ed. by Jorge J. E. Gracia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Alcoff, Linda Martin,; Appiah, Kwame Anthony,; Bernasconi, Robert,; Corlett, J. Angelo,; Garcia, J. L. A.,; Gracia, Jorge J. E.,; McGary, Howard,; Mendieta, Eduardo,; Nuccetelli, Susana,; Shockley, Kenneth,; Vacano, Diego A. Von,; Zack, Naomi,
• HerausgeberIn: Gracia, Jorge J. E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2018]; ©2007
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (304 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Contributors --; Preface --; Race or Ethnicity? An Introduction --; PART I. Racial and Ethnic Identity --; 1. Does Truth Matter to Identity? --; 2. Racial and Ethnic Identity? --; 3. Individuation of Racial and Ethnic Groups: The Problems of Circularity and Demarcation --; 4. Ethnicity, Race, and the Importance if Gender --; 5. Ethnic Race: Revisiting Alain Locke's Neglected Proposal --; 6. What Is an Ethnic Group? Against Social Functionalism --; PART II: Racism,Justice, and Public Policy --; 7. Racial Assimilation and the Dilemma of Racially Defined Institutions --; 8. Comparative Race, Comparative Racisms --; 9. Recognizing the Exploited --; 10. Racial Justice, Latinos, and the Supreme Court: The Role of Law and Affect in Social Change --; 11.Race, Ethnicity, and Public Policy --; 12.Race and Political Theory: Lessons from Latin America --; Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781501727245; 9783110536157; 9783110638721
• DOI: 10.7591/9781501727245
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Jorge J. E. Gracia.

"What is race? What is ethnicity? Should we think of them as identities? Can they be effectively individuated? How are they related? How do the relations between them influence pressing issues concerned with social identity, gender, racism, assimilation, exploitation, justice, the law, and public policy? And how are the answers to these questions affected by the Black and Latino experience in the United States"-From the PrefaceThis collection of new essays explores the relation between race and ethnicity and its social and political implications. Although much work has been done on the philosophy of race in the past century in the United States, the concept of ethnicity has only recently awoken the interest of American philosophers, and the relations between race and ethnicity remain largely unexamined. The discussion is divided into two parts dealing, on the one hand, with the nature and the relation between race and ethnicity and, on the other, with the social consequences of the complex relations between them. Part I explores in particular the debated topic of racial and ethnic identities: Does it make sense to speak of racial and ethnic identities, and especially of black and Latino identities? And if it does make sense, how should these identities be conceptualized, and how are they related to gender? Part II examines how race and ethnicity have influenced the lot of some social groups in significant ways: How do racially defined institutions deal with racial assimilation? How do different conceptions of race and ethnicity influence public policy and various forms of racism? How can exploited racial and ethnic groups be effectively recognized? And what is the role of affect in social justice as dispensed by the courts?