La Conversation Fracturee: Concepts Of Race In America

This project is a philosophical analysis of the dominant concepts of race that prevail within contemporary American society. It is the claim of this book that four main concepts attempt to answer the question: what is race? The four concepts are racial essentialism, race as a social construct with objective status, racial nihilism, and race as an existential/phenomenological process. Each concept fails, however, in providing the necessary and sufficient conditions for a satisfactory concept of race, and thus, the project calls for a new conceptual framework for answering the question: what is race?

• | Author: CLANTON C. W. DAWSON
• | Publisher: XLIBRIS
• | Publication Date: Dec 14, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 122 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 1543471323
• | ISBN-13: 9781543471328