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Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader

Race and Liberty in America: The Essential Reader

Hardcover

Black American HistoryGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesSocial Movements

Publisher Price: $29.95

ISBN10: 1598133985
ISBN13: 9781598133981
Publisher: Independent Institute
Published: Feb 4 2025
Pages: 425
Weight: 1.65
Height: 1.40 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
In this long-awaited updated edition of Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader, editor Jonathan Bean presents the timeless and urgent insights classical liberalism has to offer our troubled and polarized time.

In 2009, when Race & Liberty in America: The Essential Reader was originally published, there was a spirit of optimism surrounding race relations. Fifteen years later, a far different spirit prevails: one fraught with tensions, many regrettably familiar and some new.

Which raises the question: What happened? And more importantly: How can we set things right?

With new contributions from Thomas Sowell, Coleman Hughes, Thomas Chatterton Williams, Wilfred Reilly, Kenny Xu, David Bernstein, and Ilya Somin--as well as a plethora of primary source evidence from recent landmark US Supreme Court decisions--Bean champions the values of colorblindness, freedom, and equal constitutional protection for all individuals--regardless of race.

It's a message that couldn't be more timely.

This first collection of writings on race and immigration to document the role of the classical liberal tradition--a tradition rooted in natural law principles of individual rights and liberty--reveals:

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