Ethics and Race: Past and Present Intersections and Controversies

Naomi Zack's new text for ethics and philosophy of race courses brings together ethics and race, discussing affirmative action, diversity, protests, police killings, disaster effects, white privilege, racial identity, gender, and media representations. It provides a moral foundation for students to critically engage with these issues and construct their own chains of reasonings.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 274 pages
Publication date: 01 September 2022
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Ethics and philosophy of race courses have traditionally kept separate, but it's time we studied them as such. Naomi Zack's new text brings together historical and contemporary issues of race and racism, providing an ethical foundation for students to critically engage with these issues in the classroom and in their lives. The chapters discuss affirmative action and diversity, current protests from across the political spectrum, police killings, the relevance of race to the effects of disasters and climate change, white privilege as a cause for political impasse, racial identity (including mixed race identities), race and gender, and media representations of race. Zack does not lead the student to specific conclusions, but rather helps them construct their own chains of reasonings based on explicit moral foundations. The book features up-to-date social and biological scientific findings, hot-button current issues, discussion questions and writing prompts, further reading lists and video resources, and a comprehensive glossary. International examples supplement US-based discussion.

Weight: 372g
Dimension: 223 x 154 x 14 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781538166727