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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Introduction -- PART I: THE ECONOMICS OF REDEMPTION -- Chapter 1: Some Simple Analytics of Slave Redemption -- Chapter 2: Slave Redemption When It Takes Time to Redeem Slaves -- Chapter 3: An Exploration of the Worst Forms of Child Labor: Is Redemption a Viable Option? -- Chapter 4: Slavery, Freedom, and Sen -- Chapter 5: Freedom, Servitude, and Voluntary Contracts -- PART II: ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Chapter 6: Slavery and Slave Redemption in the Sudan -- Chapter 7: Dilemmas in the Practice of Rachat in French West Africa -- PART III: HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Chapter 8: The End of Serfdom in Russia-Lessons for Sudan? -- Chapter 9: Conflicting Imperatives: Black and White American Abolitionists Debate Slave Redemption -- Chapter 10: Frederick Douglass and the Politics of Slave Redemptions -- PART IV: PHILOSOPHICAL CONSIDERATIONS -- Chapter 11: The Moral Quandary of Slave Redemption -- Chapter 12: The Next Best Thing -- Chapter 13: What's Wrong with Slavery? -- Appendix: "They Call Us Animals," Testimonies of Abductees and Slaves in Sudan -- List of Contributors -- Index

Few modern voices have had as profound an impact on the black identity and critical race theory as Frantz Fanon, and Black Skin, White Masks represents some of his most important work. Fanon's masterwork is now available in a new translation that updates its language for a new generation of readers. A major influence on civil rights, anti-colonial, and black consciousness movements around the world, Black Skin, White Masks is the unsurpassed study of the black psyche in a white world. Hailed for its scientific analysis and poetic grace when it was first published in 1952, the book remains a vital force today from one of the most important theorists of revolutionary struggle, colonialism, and racial difference in history.

An eminent social analyst examines the way racism works-and how it can be overcome.Racism: It is social, not "natural"; it is general, not "personal"; and it is tragically effective. In a remarkable meditation on a subject at the troubled center of American life, Albert Memmi investigates racism as social pathology-a cultural disease that prevails because it allows one segment of society to empower itself at the expense of another. By turns historical, sociological, and autobiographical, Racism moves beyond individual prejudice and taste to engage the broader questions of collective behavior a

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Introduction / Gutmann, Amy -- HUMAN RIGHTS AS POLITICS AND IDOLATRY -- Human Rights as Politics / Ignatieff, Michael -- Human Rights as Idolatry / Ignatieff, Michael -- COMMENTS -- Grounding Human Rights / Appiah, K. Anthony -- Debates with the PTA and Others / Hollinger, David A. -- The Moral Imagination and Human Rights / Laqueur, Thomas W. -- Relativism and Religion / Orentlicher, Diane F. -- RESPONSE TO COMMENTATORS -- Dignity and Agency / Ignatieff, Michael -- Contributors -- Index

Michael Ignatieff draws on his extensive experience as a writer and commentator on world affairs to present a penetrating account of the successes, failures, and prospects of the human rights revolution. Since the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, this revolution has brought the world moral progress and broken the nation-state's monopoly on the conduct of international affairs. But it has also faced challenges. Ignatieff argues that human rights activists have rightly drawn criticism from Asia, the Islamic world, and within the West itself for being over

A new edition of the highly acclaimed book Multiculturalism and "The Politics of Recognition," this paperback brings together an even wider range of leading philosophers and social scientists to probe the political controversy surrounding multiculturalism. Charles Taylor's initial inquiry, which considers whether the institutions of liberal democratic government make room--or should make room--for recognizing the worth of distinctive cultural traditions, remains the centerpiece of this discussion. It is now joined by Jürgen Habermas's extensive essay on the issues of recognition and the democratic constitutional state and by K. Anthony Appiah's commentary on the tensions between personal and collective identities, such as those shaped by religion, gender, ethnicity, race, and sexuality, and on the dangerous tendency of multicultural politics to gloss over such tensions. These contributions are joined by those of other well-known thinkers, who further relate the demand for recognition to issues of multicultural education, feminism, and cultural separatism. Praise for the previous edition

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- A Note on Language -- Foreword -- Excerpts -- Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination (1992) -- Soul by Soul: Life Inside the Antebellum Slave Market (2000) -- Violence over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West (2006) -- Southern Horrors: W omen and the Politics of Rape and Lynching (2009) -- Freedom Struggles: African Americans and World War I (2009) -- The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America (2010) -- Seeing Patients: Unconscious Bias in Health Care (2011) -- Bengali Harlem and the Lost Histories of South Asian America (2013) -- Lines of Descent: W. E. B. Du Bois and the Emergence of Identity (2014) -- From the War on Poverty to the War on Crime: The Making of Mass Incarceration in Amer i ca (2016) -- Dark Ghettos: Injustice, Dissent, and Reform (2016) -- Bound in Wedlock: Slave and Free Black Marriage in the Nineteenth Century (2017) -- The Fateful Triangle: Race, Ethnicity, Nation (2017) -- The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap (2017) -- The Chinese Must Go: Vio lence, Exclusion, and the Making of the Alien in America (2018) -- The Injustice Never Leaves You: Anti- Mexican Vio lence in Texas (2018) -- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students (2019) -- Hattiesburg: An American City in Black and White (2019) -- Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration (2020) -- Being Property Once Myself: Blackness and the End of Man (2020) -- Notes -- Credits