Race

Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice Book Cover

Applicative Justice: A Pragmatic Empirical Approach to Racial Injustice

"Naomi Zack pioneers a new theory of justice starting from a correction of current injustices. While the present justice paradigm in political philosophy and related fields begins from John Rawls’s 1970 Theory of Justice, Zack insists that what people in reality care about is not justice as an ideal, but injustice as a correctable ill. Zack's theory of applicative justice offers a revolutionary reorientation of society's pursuit of justice, seeking to undo injustice in a practical and fully achievable way."
Author
Naomi Zack
Publication
2016
Marriage Vows and Racial Choices Book Cover

Marriage Vows and Racial Choices

"Choosing whom to marry involves more than emotion, as racial politics, cultural mores, and local demographics all shape romantic choices. In Marriage Vows and Racial Choices, sociologist Jessica Vasquez-Tokos explores the decisions of Latinos who marry either within or outside of their racial and ethnic groups. Drawing from in-depth interviews with nearly fifty couples, she examines their marital choices and how these unions influence their identities as Americans...Vasquez-Tokos also investigates how racial and cultural identities are maintained or altered for the respondents’ children."
Author
Jessica Vasquez-Tokos
Publication
2017
Philosophy of Race: An Introduction Book Cover

Philosophy of Race: An Introduction

"Part I provides an overview of ideas of race and ethnicity in the philosophical canon, egalitarian traditions, race in biology, and race in American and Continental Philosophy. Part II addresses race as it operates in life through colonialism and development, social constructions and institutions, racism, political philosophy, and gender. This book constructs an outline that will serve as a resource for students, nonspecialists, and general readers in thinking, talking, and writing about philosophy of race."
Author
Naomi Zack
Publication
2018
The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities Book Cover

The Race Card: From Gaming Technologies to Model Minorities

"Exploring key moments in the formation of modern US race relations, The Race Card charts a new course in gaming scholarship by reorienting our focus away from games as vehicles for empowerment that allow people to inhabit new identities, and toward the ways that games are used as instruments of soft power to advance top-down political agendas. Bridging the intellectual divide between the embedded mechanics of video games and more theoretical approaches to gaming rhetoric, Tara Fickle reveals how this intersection allows us to overlook the predominance of game tropes in national culture."
Author
Tara Fickle
Publication
2019