| Description |
1 online resource (204 pages) |
| Contents |
Introduction; 1 Radical Multiculturalism and Its Discontents; 2 Transforming the Law; 3 Is the Critique of Merit Anti-Semitic?; 4 Distorting Public Discourse; 5 The Assault on Truth and Memory; 6 Anatomy of an Ideology; Conclusion; Acknowledgments; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z |
| Summary |
Would you want to be operated on by a surgeon trained at a medical school that did not evaluate its students? Would you want to fly in a plane designed by people convinced that the laws of physics are socially constructed? Would you want to be tried by a legal system indifferent to thedistinction between fact and fiction? These questions may seem absurd, but these are theories being seriously advanced by radical multiculturalists that force us to ask them. These scholars assert that such concepts as truth and merit are inextricably racist and sexist, that reason and objectivityare merely sophi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [149]-186) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Critical legal studies.
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Discrimination.
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Merit (Ethics)
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Multiculturalism.
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multiculturalism.
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Critical legal studies
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Discrimination
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Merit (Ethics)
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Multiculturalism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Sherry, Suzanna
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| LC no. |
97020369 |
| ISBN |
9780195355437 |
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0195355431 |
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1280528966 |
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9781280528965 |
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