‘Become a permanent migrant to the UK!’

Claudia Aradau ~ RP 194 (Nov/Dec 2015) ~ Commentary

COMMENTARY ‘become a permanent migrant to the uk!’ claudia aradau Since 2005, when citizenship tests were effectively introduced in the UK, the official guidance book Life in the United Kingdom has been a veritable battleground over identity, history and knowledge. ‘Could you pass a citizenship test? ‘Most young people can’t’, the media reiterate with each […]

Philosophy and racial identity

Linda Martin Alcoff ~ RP 075 (Jan/Feb 1996) ~ Article

Philosophy and racial identity Linda Martin Alcoll In the 1993 film Map of the Human Heart an Inuit man asks a white engineer who has come to northern Canada to map the region, ‘Why are you making maps?’ Without hesitating, the white man responds ‘They will be very accurate.’ Map-making and race-making have a strong […]

95 Reviews

Alessandra Tanesini, Barry Wilkins, Carl Talbot, Stella Sandford, John Clarke, Meena Dhanda and Christina Lupton ~ RP 095 (May/Jun 1999) ~ Reviews

Reviews Drawing the colour lineK. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race, Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 1996. 191 pp., £23.00 hb., £11.95 pb., 0 691 02661 0 hb., 0 691 05909 8 pb. Suppose that you subscribe to the view that only a racist society could generate a belief […]