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Reconstructing Pragmatism to Address Racial Injustice
Author(s) -
MARGONIS FRANK
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of philosophy of education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.501
H-Index - 41
eISSN - 1467-9752
pISSN - 0309-8249
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9752.2007.00538.x
Subject(s) - pragmatism , injustice , race (biology) , ignorance , epistemology , sociology , relation (database) , racial formation theory , racism , social injustice , philosophy , social psychology , gender studies , psychology , law , political science , politics , database , computer science
Bill Lawson and Donald Koch's book Pragmatism and the Problem of Race offers a range of essays that explore the relation of pragmatic philosophy to race and racial injustice. The authors hope to understand and correct for the systematic ignorance regarding race that characterised the social philosophy of John Dewey. Some of the authors document Dewey's distance from racial matters, while other authors defend particular aspects of Dewey's pragmatic method; and some authors develop reconstructions of Dewey's position to enable it to be sensitive to racial matters and racial inequalities.