图书基本信息

A Theory of Race
作者： Joshua Glasgow
ISBN13： 9780415990721
类型： 精装(精装书)
语种： 英语（English）
出版日期： 2008-12-04
出版社： Routledge
页数： 182
重量（克）： 385
尺寸： 22.86 x 15.494 x 1.524 cm

商品简介

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. Using traditional philosophical tools and psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, this book argues that race is an illusion.

书评与摘要

Social commentators have long asked whether racial categories should be conserved or eliminated from our practices, discourse, institutions, and perhaps even private thoughts. In A Theory of Race, Joshua Glasgow argues that this set of choices unnecessarily presents us with too few options.

Using both traditional philosophical tools and recent psychological research to investigate folk understandings of race, Glasgow argues that, as ordinarily conceived, race is an illusion. However, our pressing need to speak to and make sense of social life requires that we employ something like racial discourse. These competing pressures, Glasgow maintains, ultimately require us to stop conceptualizing race as something biological, and instead understand it as an entirely social phenomenon.