Pragmatism and the Problem of Race

Name: Pragmatism and the Problem of Race
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ISBN: 9780253216472

ISBN-10: 0253216478

ISBN-13: 9780253216472

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bill E. Lawson, Donald F. Koch

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List price: $22.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Publication date: 4/21/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 0.880
Language: English

Bill E. Lawson is Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He is co-author (with Howard McGary) of Between Slavery and Freedom (IUP, 1993).Donald F. Koch is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at Michigan State University. He has edited three volumes of Dewey's lectures.



Preface


Introduction




Dewey on race and social change




Distance, abstraction, and the role of the philosopher in the pragmatic approach to racism




"Discovering a problem" : a pragmatic instrumentalist approach to educational segregation




Dewey's vision of equal opportunity for education in a democracy




Situating the self : concerning an ethics of culture and race




Tragedy and moral experience : John Dewey and Toni Morrison's beloved




Booker T. Washington : a pragmatist at work




Should we conserve the notion of race?




Pragmatism and race




Civil smother : folkways of renewed racism in the United States




Race, education, and democracy




Building a cosmopolitan world community through mutual hospitality



Afterword



Contributors


Index