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I'm Not a Racist, But...: The Moral Quandry of Race
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Not all racial incidents are racist incidents, Lawrence Blum says. "We need a more varied and nuanced moral vocabulary for talking about the arena of race. We should not be faced with a choice of 'racism' or nothing." Use of the word "racism" is pervasive: An article about the NAACP's criticism of television networks for casting too few "minority" actors in lead roles asks, "Is television a racist institution?" A white girl in Virginia says it is racist for her African-American teacher to wear African attire.Blum argues that a growing tendency to castigate as "racism" everything that goes wrong in the racial domain reduces the term's power to evoke moral outrage. In "I'm Not a Racist, But...", Blum develops a historically grounded account of racism as the deeply morally-charged notion it has become. He addresses the question whether people of color can be racist, defines types of racism, and identifies debased and inappropriate usages of the term. Though racial insensitivity, racial anxiety, racial ignorance and racial injustice are, in his view, not "racism," they are racial ills that should elicit moral concern.Blum argues that "race" itself, even when not serving distinct racial malfeasance, is a morally destructive idea, implying moral distance and unequal worth. History and genetic science reveal both the avoidability and the falsity of the idea of race. Blum argues that we can give up the idea of race, but must recognize that racial groups' historical and social experience has been shaped by having been treated as if they were races.

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Apart from a small number of avowed white supremacists, most Americans wish very much to avoid being called "racist."1

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  • Title I'm Not a Racist, But...: The Moral Quandry of Race
  • Author Lawrence Blum
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition Good Condition
  • Pages 272
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Cornell University Press, Ithaca
  • Publication date 2001-12-15
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780801438691 / 0801438691
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.42 x 6.3 x 0.86 in (23.93 x 16.00 x 2.18 cm)
  • Age range 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Category Sociology
  • Library of Congress subjects Social ethics, Race discrimination
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2001042296
  • Dewey Decimal Code 305.8

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Citations

  • Booklist, 01/01/2002, Page 781
  • Choice, 11/01/2002, Page 481
  • Multicultural Review, 09/01/2002, Page 101
  • Publishers Weekly, 10/15/2001, Page 0
  • PW Notes and Reprints, 10/15/2001, Page 61

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Lawrence Blum is Professor of Philosophy and Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Education at the University of Massachusetts, Boston. His previous books include Moral Perception and Particularity and Friendship, Altruism, and Morality.

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