How should we think about persisting racism?
"Civil Rights legislation prohibited certain kinds of racism. Scholars disagree over the extent to which racism remains a persisting problem that impedes African Americans' access to goods, services, and opportunities. Some scholars deny that racism remains a problem that impedes African Americans' freedom and equality. Some scholars maintain that racism continues to be a persisting problem that impedes African Americans' access to goods, services, and opportunities. I argue that both of these groups of scholars thinking is to some extent adequate and inadequate for thinking about the persistence of racism. In this dissertation, I introduce some standards that an adequate conception should meet. I argue that the dialectic of recognition conception of racism is an adequate conception of racism because it allows us to think about the persistence of racism, while it avoids one-sided, atomistic, and static thinking."--Page ii.
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- Material Type
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Theses
- Authors
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Warren, Ronald Keith
- Thesis Advisors
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Peterson, Richard T.
- Committee Members
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Peterson, Richard T.
Esquith, Stephen L.
Gifford, Fred
Frye, Marilyn
- Date
- 2017
- Subjects
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Racism--Philosophy
Race relations--Philosophy
African Americans--Social conditions
United States
- Program of Study
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Philosophy - Doctor of Philosophy
- Degree Level
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Doctoral
- Language
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English
- Pages
- ix, 182 pages
- ISBN
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9780355529555
0355529556
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- https://doi.org/doi:10.25335/75ag-td22