Requirements for an Ethics of Race
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Date
2011
Authors
Zack, Naomi
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Rowman and Littlefield
Abstract
The historical and contemporary reality of race in the United States encompasses race
relations (interactions between different racial groups and their members), laws concerning members of different racial groups, the mores of these groups, and individual identities based on group membership. This reality is mostly a matter of mores. It is difficult to render theoretical judgements about race ethically persuasive and obligatory when such judgements conflict with the mores of either the white majority or various non-white groups. What may be genuine ethical judgements about race often sound like attacks on existing mores, because the common ground on which they can be expressed and understood, as ethical judgements concerning race, does not yet exist. Whites object to what could be ethical judgements that identify racism; non-whites object to what could be ethical judgements about racial identities and loyalties.
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12 pages