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Comment On Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative Of Integration, Ronald Sundstrom
Comment On Elizabeth Anderson's The Imperative Of Integration, Ronald Sundstrom
Philosophy
Elizabeth Anderson draws the attention of moral, social, and political philosophy to the idea of integration, an idea that is most often associated with the struggles to desegregate schools and neighborhoods in the years before and after the U.S. Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board. Her book, The Imperative of Integration, is a remarkable contribution because integration is not frequently mentioned outside of debates in the fields of urban affairs and education policy, and residential integration and segregation are rarely mentioned in academic philosophy. There are, however, some concerns with her defense of her defense of integration that …
Race And Place: Social Space In The Production Of Human Kinds, Ronald Sundstrom
Race And Place: Social Space In The Production Of Human Kinds, Ronald Sundstrom
Philosophy
Recent discussions of human categories have suffered from an over emphasis on intention and language, and have not paid enough attention to the role of material conditions, and, specifically, of social space in the construction of human categories. The relationship between human categories and social spaces is vital, especially with the categories of class, race, and gender. This paper argues that social space is not merely the consequent of the division of the world into social categories; it is constitutive of social categories. To put it more bluntly, if who we are is bound up with place, then not only …