Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference - Hardcover

Ingram, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0700610065 ISBN 13: 9780700610068

Publisher: University Press of Kansas, 2000

Synopsis

This volume aims to bring a variety of social dilemmas together in a mutally illuminating way. The author examines the concept of legal equality in a multiracial society by considering issues such as self-governance for Native Americans, the rights of immigrants, and affirmative action.

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Review

"Ingram's analyses are humane, judicial, highly informative, and accessible across a wide range of disciplines. Group Rights succeeds in bringing a great diversity of minority concerns into the mainstream of social and political philosophy. It is an important work."--Naomi Zack, author of Race and Mixed Race and editor of Race/Sex

"This timely and important book addresses one of the most vexing issues within the emerging field of critical race theory: blacks have long been oppressed on the basis of their group status, and yet our system of laws secures rights only to individuals. Ingram's critical examination of the ways in which established democratic precepts and constitutional norms unintentionally perpetuate racial inequalities is certain to impact both intellectual and policy debates. This book will be influential."--Stephen Steinberg, author of Turning Back: The Retreat from Racial Justice in American Thought and Policy

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700610065
• ISBN 13: 9780700610068
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 336