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- Title: Liberalism and the Challenge of Race: Two Views (Rights, Race, And Recognition) (Book Review)
- Author : Social Theory and Practice
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 223 KB
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[Review Essay: Derrick Darby, Rights, Race, and Recognition (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009), xii + 194 pp.; and Ronald R. Sundstrom, The Browning of America and the Evasion of Social Justice (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008), x + 190 pp.] The recent texts of Derrick Darby and Ronald R. Sundstrom offer significant contributions not only to the growing philosophical literature on race and racism, but to liberal political theory generally. Though they are motivated by different questions, these books have some striking similarities, and complement each other very well. First and foremost, the books are concerned with the challenges posed by race and racism to liberal political theory, both insofar as racism threatens or undermines liberal ideals, and insofar as many antiracist political policies seem equally threatening to those same ideals. Second, both books take up and critically address nineteenth-century arguments and strategies in the pursuit of their investigations (T.H. Green in the case of Darby, and Frederick Douglass in the case of Sundstrom) to very good effect. This sensitivity to the historical practice of political struggle against oppression not only lends an urgency to their work, but in many ways "naturalizes" their resulting theories in a most welcome manner. While they do share these features and virtues, for the sake of clarity I will treat each text individually in this review, beginning with Darby's Rights, Race, and Recognition.