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Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race
In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice--whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action--provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. "Color Conscious is an extremely welcome addition to the discourse on race. In different but complementary ways, Appiah and Gutmann articulate with precision and subtlety those intricate issues of race that confound us all".--Toni Morrison "Without dogma or cant, two of our most challenging and clear-eyed public philosophers explore the real meanings of culture and identity. An invaluable resource for all who want to think responsibly about the racial dilemmas facing our nation".--Henry Louis Gates, Jr".These formidable scholars each remind us that principles of justice and ideas about race are interdependent and must speak to the actual conditions in which we live".--Lani Guinier"[Appiah and Gutmann] have provided rigorous arguments about the vexing concept of race, its origins and its social and political implications for the American experience.... It is the authors' intellectual honesty and rigor that makes this book well worth reading by individuals of any ideological disposition who care about America's struggle with race".--Brian W. Jones, The Washington Times
Book Details
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish Date: Apr 5th, 1998
- Pages: 200
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 8.95in - 6.11in - 0.63in - 0.67lb
- EAN: 9780691059099
- Categories: • History & Theory - General• Political• Cultural & Ethnic Studies - American - African American & Bl
About the Author
K. Anthony Appiah is Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy at Harvard University. His books include the award-winning In My Father's House. Amy Gutmann is Laurance S. Rockefeller University Professor of Politics at Princeton University. Her books include Democratic Education (Princeton). David B. Wilkins is Kirkland and Ellis Professor of Law and Director of the Program on the Legal Profession at Harvard Law School.
Praise for this book
"Winner of the 1997 Ralph J. Bunche Award, American Political Science Association"
"Named an Outstanding Book by the Gustavus Meyers Center for the Study of Human Rights in North America for 1998"
"Winner of the 1997 Book Award of the North American Society for Social Philosophy"
"Kwame Anthony Appiah, Winner of the 2011 National Humanities Medal"
"Gutmann's essay shines with a brilliance of analysis worthy of widespread attention."---James O. Freedman, Boston Globe
"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."-- "Washington Post Book World"