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Chargement... Why Race Matters (édition 2005)par Michael Levin
Information sur l'oeuvreWhy Race Matters par Michael E. Levin
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Opposing the denial of race differences and the claim that they do not matter anyway, Michael Levin explains why these differences do matter. He summarizes what has been written about the differences in intelligence and temperament, and, more important, explores their larger significance. He rejects charges that biological explanations of behavior are reductivist or determinist, and he explains the circularity of explaining culture in terms of culture.Levin's naturalistic outlook finds no group superior and predicts moral divergence among groups evolving in different environments. With logical rigor, Levin addresses conceptual issues not touched upon in previous hereditarian work, drawing striking conclusions about justice, race consciousness, affirmative action, individualism, and private and state action. Scholars, researchers, policymakers, and the reading public concerned with issues of race relations, social philosophy, contemporary moral problems, and the psychology of race differences will find the book provocative. No one making an effort to think clearly about race can ignore Why Race Matters. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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"Why Race Matters" is unmitigated trash, archaic pseudo-science masquerading under the guise of technical - sounding jargon, and bolstered by fake equations and graphs devoid of data. The author trots out the ugliest of stereotypes about "Blacks" vs "Whites," ignoring decades of advances in the natural and social sciences, and overwhelming genetic evidence that these categories are social, not biological ones. Only the most ignorant of readers, and cynics seeking support for their own racist views, will find this work to be worthwhile. Its arguments are easily refuted by the fact that the so-called racial categories used by the author have long since been refuted as non-biological. Indeed, in its concepts the work comes right out of the 19th century, a time when hereditarian assumptions had not yet fallen to recognition of the vastly important effects of social and other environmental factors.
Make no mistake -- this is a work of advocacy by one who seeks to roll back social. cultural, and political advances of the past 150 years. If its arguments were true, racial discrimination of all kinds would be entirely justified, including routine police harassment of non-white citizens (after all, we're assured, such individuals have an inherited predisposition towards impulsivity and violence). And if policies that relegate non-whites to unskilled labor and imprisonment are justified, then why draw the line at slavery?
If a reader wants a flavor of the work's implications, they would do well to turn to the author's appendix, which consists of a speech he imagined some future US president would make to the nation on the subject of the racial inferority of black people. No doubt, the author was unable to imagine a time when one such individual would be president of the US. This work is a blueprint for a fascist future, from an author who likes to characterize himself as a victim of political correctness. In reality, he's an ongoing embarassment to the social sciences, within which his work is dismissed as archaic, confused, and deeply biased by racial prejudice. (