| White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide Contributor(s): Zack, Naomi (Author) |
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ISBN: 1442250550 ISBN-13: 9781442250550 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers OUR PRICE: $69.30 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: April 2015 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Philosophy | Social - Philosophy | Ethics & Moral Philosophy - Philosophy | Political |
| Dewey: 363.230 |
| LCCN: 2015001780 |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.70 lbs) 154 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Examining racial profiling in American policing, Naomi Zack argues against white privilege discourse while introducing a new theory of applicative justice. Zack draws clear lines between rights and privileges and between justice and existing laws to make sense of the current crisis. This urgent and immediate analysis of the killings of unarmed black men by police officers shows how racial profiling matches statistics of the prison population with disregard for the constitutional rights of the many innocent people of all races. Moving the discussion from white privilege discourse to the rights of blacks, from ideas of white supremacy to legally protected police impunity, and from ideal and non-ideal justice theory to existing injustice, White Privilege and Black Rights examines the legal structure that has permitted the killings of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and others. Deepening understanding without abandoning hope, Zack shows why it is more important to consider black rights than white privilege as we move forward through today's culture of inequality. |
Contributor Bio(s): Zack, Naomi: - Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author of White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (R&L 2015), The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (R&L 2011), Ethics for Disaster (R&L 2009), and Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge 2002). |