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Zack addresses current upheavals with a new conception of the relationship between citizens and government. Analyzing current states of race, class, gender, and other measures of social wellbeing, Zack promotes a new social compact wherein citizens as a whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions to ensure stability.
List of contents
Foreword by Ruth Sample
Author's Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I - Politics, Race, Class, and Feminism
1. Turbo-Charged Politics
2. The Junction of Race
3. The Political Creation of Class
4. The Amazing Success of Feminism
Part II -- The Need for the Social Compact
5. The Social Contract and the Social Compact
6. Natural Disaster in Society
7. Unnatural Disaster in Nature
8. Homelessness and Monetization
9. Immigration and Expulsion
Conclusion
Index
About the author
Naomi Zack is a professor of philosophy at the University of Oregon. She is author of White Privilege and Black Rights: The Injustice of U.S. Police Racial Profiling and Homicide (R&L 2015), The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy (R&L 2011), Ethics for Disaster (R&L 2009), and Philosophy of Science and Race (Routledge 2002).
Summary
Zack addresses current upheavals with a new conception of the relationship between citizens and government. Analyzing current states of race, class, gender, and other measures of social wellbeing, Zack promotes a new social compact wherein citizens as a whole make long-term resolutions outside of government institutions to ensure stability.
