A Realistic Blacktopia: Why We Must Unite to Fight

ISBN-13: 9780197622124 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 320 str.

Derrick Darby

Recenzje

How is it possible to improve the material conditions of the poor in the United States, whose number is disproportionately black? How is it possible to treat every citizen as deserving of dignity, including black citizens vulnerable to gerrymandering, disenfranchisement, and vote dilution? In A Realistic Blacktopia, Derrick Darby makes a compelling argument that improving the condition of black citizens requires forging alliances among marginalized communities.

O autorze

Derrick Darby is Henry Rutgers Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at Rutgers University. He holds a BA from Colgate and a PhD from Pittsburgh. He discovered his passion for philosophy growing up in the Queensbridge public housing projects in NYC. For the backstory, see his TEDx talk, "Doing the Knowledge." He writes about rights, inequality, and democracy. He has been profiled in The Atlantic and published in The New York Times and other outlets. He is a cohost of A Pod Called Quest. His most recent book, with John L. Rury, is The Color of Mind: Why the Origins of the Achievement Gap Matter for Justice.