Race or ethnicity? : on Black and Latino identity / edited by Jorge J.E. Gracia.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gracia, Jorge J. E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Race identity.

African Americans.

Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.

Hispanic Americans.

Race--Philosophy.

Race.

Ethnicity--Philosophy.

Ethnicity.

Physical Description:

xii, 288 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007.

Summary:

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? This collection of new essays explores the relation between race and ethnicity and its social and political implications.

Contents:

Does truth matter to identity? / Kwame Anthony Appiah

Racial and ethnic identity? / J.L.A. García

Individuation of racial and ethnic groups / Jorge J.E. Gracia

Ethnicity, race, and the importance of gender / Naomi Zack

Ethnic race / Robert Bernasconi

What is an ethnic group? / Susana Nuccetelli

Racial assimilation and the dilemma of racially defined institutions / Howard McGary

Comparative race, comparative racisms / Linda Martín Alcoff

Recognizing the exploited / Kenneth Shockley

Racial justice, Latinos, and the Supreme Court / Eduardo Mendieta

Race, ethnicity, and public policy / J. Angelo Corlett

Race and political theory / Diego A. von Vacano.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-282) and index.

ISBN:

9780801445446

0801445442

9780801473593

0801473594

OCLC:

76937325