The Race Card
Subtitle: How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: January 22, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9780374245757
Subjects: Ethnography; Racism & racial discrimination; Race And Ethnic Relations; Social Science; Sociology; Discrimination & Racism; Minority Studies - Race Relations; Social Science / General; African Americans; Malicious accusation; Racism; Social conditions; United States
Description: As the label of "prejudice" is applied to more and more situations, it loses a clear and agreed-upon meaning. This makes it easy for self-serving individuals and political hacks to use accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and other types of "bias" to advance their own ends. Law professor Ford brings sophisticated legal analysis, lively anecdotes, and plain old common sense to this heated topic, offering ways to separate valid claims from bellyaching. This is a call for us to treat racism as a social problem that must be objectively understood and honestly evaluated.--From publisher description.