Should Race Matter? : Unusual Answers to the Usual Questions.

Cover; Should Race Matter?; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Preface; 1 Thinking in Black and White; WHAT'S BLACK AND WHITE AND CONTESTED ALL OVER?; BEYOND BLACK AND WHITE; DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT (BLACK) HISTORY; THE STATE OF THE UNION(S); WHAT WOULD SOCRATES DO?; 2 Repairing the Slave Reparations Debate; IV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; THE UNJUST ENRICHMENT ARGUMENT; Why the Argument Isn't So Bad; Why the Argument Isn't So Good, Either; THE COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; Step One: The Compensation Principle.

Step Two: Applying the Compensation Principle to the PastStep Three: From Past Claimants to Present Claimants; Step Four: From Past Debtors to Present Debtors; Step Five: Checking the Balance; DAVE'S TOP TEN LIST OF OBJECTIONS TO SLAVE REPARATIONS; White Slaves, Black Masters, Arab Traders; I There Is No Single Group Responsible For The Crime Of Slavery.; The Legacy of Slavery -- Everyone's a Winner!; II There Is No Single Group That Benefited Exclusively from Slavery.; The Few and the Many; III Only A Minority Of White Americans Owned Slaves, While Others Gave Their Lives To Free Them.

The Immigrant's ComplaintIV Most Living Americans Have No Connection (Direct or Indirect) to Slavery.; Faulty Precedents; V The Historical Precedents Used to Justify the Reparations Claim Do Not Apply, and the Claim Itself Is Based on Race Not Injury.; Failures of Individual Character; VI The Reparations Argument Is Based on the Unsubstantiated ClaimThat All African-Americans Suffer from the Economic Consequences of Slavery and Discrimination.; The Victimization Message.

VII The Reparations Claim Is One More Attempt to Turn African-Americans into Victims. It Sends a Damaging Message to the African-American Community and to Others. The Check's Already in the Mail; VIII Reparations To African Americans Have Already Been Paid.; White Sacrifice, Black Ingratitude; IX What about the Debt Blacks Owe to America?; They Hate Us, They Really Hate Us; X The Reparations Claim Is A Separatist Idea That Sets African-Americans against the Nation That Gave Them Freedom.; 3 Advancing the Slave Reparations Debate; GOVERNMENTS AREN'T PEOPLE.

FORGIVE THE FOUNDING FATHERS, FOR THEY KNEW NOT WHAT THEY DIDCOULDN'T HAVE DONE OTHERWISE; IT'S A BLACK THING -- YOU WOULDN'T UNDERSTAND; And here is Shelby Steele:; And Dinesh D'Souza:; FISHING FOR ANSWERS IN THE GENE POOL; BETTER THAN NOTHING; COMPENSATION COMPLICATIONS; AMERICA 2.0; PAYING THE BILL; WHOSE STRIFE IS IT, ANYWAY?; REPARATIONS FOR EVERYONE?; A PROPOSAL; 4 One Cheer for Affirmative Action; CONFESSIONS OF A WHITE AFFIRMATIVE ACTION BABY; THE UNFAIR DISADVANTAGE ARGUMENT; THE (OTHER) COMPENSATION ARGUMENT; THE APPEAL TO DIVERSITY; THE NEED FOR ROLE MODELS.

The bias-elimination argument.

David Boonin attempts to answer the moral questions raised by slave reparations, affirmative action, hate crime laws and racial profiling.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 387-406) and index.

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