Race, Wrongs, and Remedies

Group Justice in the 21st Century

Amy L. Wax (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

196 Seiten

2009
Rowman & Littlefield (Verlag)
978-0-7425-6286-8 (ISBN)

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Black Americans continue to lag behind on many measures of social and economic well-being. Conventional wisdom holds that these inequalities can only be eliminated by eradicating racism and providing well-funded social programs. In Race, Wrongs, and Remedies, Amy L. Wax applies concepts from the law of remedies to show that the conventional wisdom is mistaken. She argues that effectively addressing today's persistent racial disparities requires dispelling the confusion surrounding blacks' own role in achieving equality.

The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that discrimination against blacks has dramatically abated. The most important factors now impeding black progress are behavioral: low educational attainment, poor socialization and work habits, drug use, criminality, paternal abandonment, and non-marital childbearing. Although these maladaptive patterns are largely the outgrowth of past discrimination and oppression, they now largely resist correction by government programs or outside interventions. Wax asserts that the black community must solve these problems from within. Self-help, changed habits, and a new cultural outlook are, in fact, the only effective tactics for eliminating the present vestiges of our nation's racist past.

Published in cooperation with the Hoover Institution

Amy L. Wax is Robert Mundheim Professor of Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School, where she teaches courses on procedure, remedies, and social welfare. From 1988 to 1994, she was an Assistant Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice and has argued fifteen cases before the United States Supreme Court. She lives with her husband and three children in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania.

Chapter 1 Introduction
Chapter 2 Chapter 1. The Remedial Ideal and the Demand for Racial Justice
Chapter 3 Chapter 2. Group Disadvantage and the Case of Race
Chapter 4 Chapter 3. Racial Disparities and Human Capital Deficits
Chapter 5 Chapter 4. The Psychology of Victimization
Chapter 6 Is Self-Help Possible?
Chapter 7 Reparations, Affirmative Action, and the Relationship of Race and Class
Chapter 8 Notes
Chapter 9 Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	16.9.2009
Reihe/Serie	Hoover Studies in Politics, Economics, and Society
Sprache	englisch
Maße	161 x 238 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Recht / Steuern ► Arbeits- / Sozialrecht ► Arbeitsrecht
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Verfassungsrecht
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Wirtschaftspolitik
ISBN-10	0-7425-6286-7 / 0742562867
ISBN-13	978-0-7425-6286-8 / 9780742562868
Zustand	Neuware