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Freedom, equality, race.
- Source :
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Daedalus [Daedalus] 2011; Vol. 140 (1), pp. 44-52. - Publication Year :
- 2011
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Abstract
- This essay explores come of the reasons for the continuing power of racial categorization in our era, and thus offers some friendly amendments to the more optimistic renderings of the term post-racial. Focusing mainly on the relationship between black and white Americans, it argues that the widespread embrace of universal values of freedom and equality, which most regard as antidotes to racial exclusion, actually reinforce it. The internal logic of these categories requires the construction of the "other." In America, where freedom and equality still stand at the contested center of collective identity, a history of racial oppression informs the very meaning of these terms. Thus the irony: much of the effort exerted to transcend race tends to fuel continuing division.
- Subjects :
- History, 20th Century
History, 21st Century
Humans
Population Groups education
Population Groups ethnology
Population Groups history
Population Groups legislation & jurisprudence
Population Groups psychology
Prejudice
Social Alienation psychology
Social Behavior history
Social Conditions economics
Social Conditions history
Social Conditions legislation & jurisprudence
Social Identification
Social Problems economics
Social Problems ethnology
Social Problems history
Social Problems legislation & jurisprudence
Social Problems psychology
United States ethnology
Black or African American education
Black or African American ethnology
Black or African American history
Black or African American legislation & jurisprudence
Black or African American psychology
Civil Rights economics
Civil Rights education
Civil Rights history
Civil Rights legislation & jurisprudence
Civil Rights psychology
Classification
Freedom
Race Relations history
Race Relations legislation & jurisprudence
Race Relations psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0011-5266
- Volume :
- 140
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Daedalus
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 21469393
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_00057