Color Conscious by Amy Gutmann, David B. Wilkins, Kwame Anthony Appiah

Color Conscious



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Color Conscious Amy Gutmann, David B. Wilkins, Kwame Anthony Appiah
Language: English
Page: 199
Format: pdf
ISBN: 0691059098, 9780691059099
Publisher: Princeton University Press

From Publishers Weekly

Appiah, a Harvard philosophy professor, and Gutmann, dean of the faculty at Princeton, add an academic gloss to two issues already much debated today: the legitimacy of the notion of "race" and whether color-blind policies can further justice in America. Appiah's sometimes ponderous philosophical excursion reminds us that the notion of race fails as a biological construct (despite contemporary efforts like The Bell Curve to prove otherwise), but he does acknowledge that race shapes social identity in America. But because America's racial groups do not necessarily share a single culture, Appiah protests, as others have, that there should not be one way to be "black" and hopes for the possibility of multiple identities and allegiances. Gutmann's essay returns us to the here and now, calling for color consciousness, which acknowledges the effects of race without assuming genetic determinism. She argues that "fairness" comes closer to justice than color-blindness, and that color-conscious policies?rather than class-conscious ones?can address the effects of race. Gutmann makes a distinction between "affirmative action" and more regrettable "preferential treatment" that may be disputed; she does acknowledge that color-consciousness today aims to achieve a future color-blind society. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Review

Despite tremendous ongoing discussion of racial issues in this country, American opinions about race remain contentious and nowhere near a national consensus. . .Each co-author devotes one-half of the book to his or her efforts to bring insight and illumination to what is an often gloomy conversation. -- Review

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