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Pragmatism and the problem of race / edited by Bill E. Lawson and Donald F. Koch.

Contributor(s): Lawson, Bill E, 1947- | Koch, Donald F, 1938-
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2004]Copyright date: ©2004Description: viii, 239 pages ; 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0253216478 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0253343615 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Pragmatism | Racism -- United States | United States -- Race relationsDDC classification: 305.8/00973 LOC classification: B832 | .P7565 2004Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Dewey on race and social change / Michael Eldridge -- Distance, abstraction, and the role of the philosopher in the pragmatic approach to racism / Gregory Fernando Pappas -- "Discovering a problem": a pragmatic instrumentalist approach to educational segregation / Donald F. Koch -- Dewey's vision of equal opportunity for education in a democracy / John R. Shook -- Situating the self: concerning an ethics of culture and race / D. Micah Hester -- Tragedy and moral experience: John Dewey and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. -- Booker T. Washington: a pragmatist at work / Bill E. Lawson -- Should we conserve the notion of race? / David E. McClean -- Pragmatism and race / Paul C. Taylor -- Civil smother: folkways of renewed racism in the United States / Alfred E. Prettyman -- Race, education, and democracy / Scott L. Pratt -- Building a cosmopolitan world community through mutual hospitality / Judith M. Green -- Afterword / Cornel West.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Dewey on race and social change / Michael Eldridge -- Distance, abstraction, and the role of the philosopher in the pragmatic approach to racism / Gregory Fernando Pappas -- "Discovering a problem": a pragmatic instrumentalist approach to educational segregation / Donald F. Koch -- Dewey's vision of equal opportunity for education in a democracy / John R. Shook -- Situating the self: concerning an ethics of culture and race / D. Micah Hester -- Tragedy and moral experience: John Dewey and Toni Morrison's Beloved / Eddie S. Glaude, Jr. -- Booker T. Washington: a pragmatist at work / Bill E. Lawson -- Should we conserve the notion of race? / David E. McClean -- Pragmatism and race / Paul C. Taylor -- Civil smother: folkways of renewed racism in the United States / Alfred E. Prettyman -- Race, education, and democracy / Scott L. Pratt -- Building a cosmopolitan world community through mutual hospitality / Judith M. Green -- Afterword / Cornel West.

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