Racial Culture; a critique

Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2005. First edition, second printing. Paperback. Extremely mild rubbing to spine head and foot, faint soiling to spine head and fore-edges, very gentle rubbing to corners, bright pages, tight binding, else Near Fine(+).. Grey octavo, teal spine, x, 231 pages, 24 cm. "This book will shake things up. Racial Culture is elegant, clear, and argumentatively tough. It is a highly incisive intervention in an important domain of anti-discrimination law, social policy, social theory, legal theory, and racial politics."--Janet Halley, Harvard University" Racial Culture is a brave, disturbing, and important book by a first-class legal scholar. Richard Ford challenges every left and liberal shibboleth about racial justice in contemporary multicultural societies, while arguing relentlessly for racial justice. The final provocation is chilling and inspired, an incomparable articulation of the historical necessity and the historical damage of identity politics."--Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley"This is a race-conscious, anti-racist attack on racial identity politics. There is nothing else like it in the literature. It is provocative in the best sense--provocative of thought--and it opens a new approach to the tired "conversation about race." Certainly one of the most important contributions of the last ten years."--Duncan Kennedy, Harvard Law School. Contents: Difference discourse -- Identities as collective action -- "Cultural discrimination" -- The ends of anti-discrimination law. Discrimination -- Law and legislation.