Group Rights: Reconciling Equality and Difference - Softcover

Ingram, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0700610073 ISBN 13: 9780700610075

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

"This study makes a rigorously analytic case for the conditions under which the need for a more egalitarian society demands that group rights trump the Lockean liberalism and possessive individualism that Americans take so for granted."--American Journal of Sociology

"Ingram offers an original and nonessentialist theory of racial and cultural "affinity groups." Other topics include the right of indigenous peoples to preserve their traditional cultures; an argument for less restrictive immigration policies in developed, liberal democracies; a defense of affirmative action on grounds of compensatory and procedural justice; the pros and cons of racial redistricting for purposes of achieving grater democratic representation; multicultural education a a vehicle for social change; and extending the group-rights perspective to the global context."--Ethics

"Ingram's grasp of sociological and political theories is powerfully instructive; and the book is written with splendid clarity, no small accomplishment for a topic of such complexity."--Choice

"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

"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

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0700610073
• ISBN 13: 9780700610075
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336