Prejudicial Appearances: The Logic of American Antidiscrimination Law

by Kwame Anthony Appiah, Thomas C. Grey, Judith Butler, et al.

Book Overview

In Prejudicial Appearances noted legal scholar Robert C. Post argues modern American antidiscrimination law should not be conceived as protecting the transcendental dignity of individual persons but instead as transforming social practices that define and sustain potentially oppressive categories like race or gender. Arguing that the prevailing logic of American antidiscrimination law is misleading, Post lobbies for deploying sociological understandings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822327139
• ISBN13: 9780822327134
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 184 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.2"