Blacks and social justice
By: Bernard R. Boxill.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Published: 1992
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
Subjects: African Americans -- Civil rights.; African Americans -- Race identity.; Social justice.; Busing for school integration -- United States.; Affirmative action programs -- United States.
Other titles: Blacks & social justice.
Description: "In this acclaimed study, Bernard Boxill examines the works of modern theorists James Coleman, Robert Nozick, Ernest Van den Haag, Milton Friedman, William Julius Wilson, and Ronald Dworkin, among others, and classicial thinkers such as Karl Marx, John Stuart Mill, and W.E.B. Dubois, to delineate the principle arguments for and against the major racial issues of our time. The revised edition includes a major new chapter, The Surrender to Injustice, which critically examines the recent challenges to traditional analyses of the effects of racism by William Julius Wilson, Glenn Loury, and Shelby Steele."--Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-290) and index.
Cover title: Blacks & social justice.