Rights, Race, and Recognition

Name: Rights, Race, and Recognition
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ISBN: 9780521733199

ISBN-10: 0521733197

ISBN-13: 9780521733199

Edition: 2009

Authors: Derrick Darby

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What is the source of rights? Rights have been grounded in divine agency, human nature, and morally justified claims, and have been used to assess the moral status of legal and customary social practices. The orthodoxy is that some of our rights are a species of unrecognized or natural rights. For example, black slaves in antebellum America were said to have such rights, and this was taken to provide a basis for establishing the immorality of slavery. Derrick Darby exposes the main shortcomings of the orthodox conception of the source of rights and proposes a radical alternative. He draws on the legacy of race and racism in the USA to argue that all rights are products of social…

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List price: $39.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 4/2/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.98" wide x 8.82" long x 0.51" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English



Introduction



Having rights



Rights without recognition



Rights and recognition



Race and rights



What's wrong with slavery?


Conclusion