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How Bluffing About Bias Makes Race Relations Worse
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
February 2008
On Sale: January 22, 2008
400 pages
ISBN: 0374245754
EAN: 9780374245757
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
What do Katrina victims waiting for federal disaster relief,
millionaire rappers buying vintage champagne, Ivy League
professors waiting for taxis, and ghetto hustlers trying to
find steady work have in common? All have claimed to be
victims of racism. These days almost no one openly expresses
racist beliefs or defends bigoted motives. So lots of people
are victims of bigotry, but no one’s a bigot? What gives?
Either a lot of people are lying about their true beliefs
and motivations, or a lot of people are jumping to
unwarranted conclusions—or just playing the race card.
As the label of “prejudice” is applied to more and more
situations, it loses a clear and agreed-upon meaning. This
makes it easy for self-serving individuals and political
hacks to use accusations of racism, sexism, homophobia, and
other types of “bias” to advance their own ends. Richard
Thompson Ford, a Stanford Law School professor, brings
sophisticated legal analysis, lively and eye-popping
anecdotes, and plain old common sense to this heated topic.
He offers ways to separate valid claims from bellyaching.
Daring, entertaining, and incisive, The Race Card is a call
for us to treat racism as a social problem that must be
objectively understood and honestly evaluated.
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