I'm Not a Racist, but : The Moral Quandary of Race, Hardcover by Blum, Lawren...

by Lawrence Blum

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I'm Not a Racist, but : The Moral Quandary of Race, Hardcover by Blum, Lawrence, ISBN 0801438691, ISBN-13 9780801438691, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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 avo

• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Year: 2001
• Binding: Hardcover
• ISBN: 9780801438691
• Condition: Fine

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