Race and Morality : How Good Intentions Undermine Social Justice and Perpetuate Inequality /
This book attempts to explain why it has been so difficult to solve America's racial problems as the country has moved from what the author describes as a closed caste to an open class society. The author contends that Americans fail to perceive how the legacy of slavery interferes with social...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston, MA :
Springer US,
2001.
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| Series: | Clinical Sociology, Research and Practice.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | This book attempts to explain why it has been so difficult to solve America's racial problems as the country has moved from what the author describes as a closed caste to an open class society. The author contends that Americans fail to perceive how the legacy of slavery interferes with social mobility and highlights the values that middle-class blacks and whites need to uphold, most prominently the emphasis on freedom as opposed to total equality. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xv, 356 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9781461512813 (electronic bk.) 1461512816 (electronic bk.) |
| ISSN: | 1566-7847 |