Becoming a Cosmopolitan: What It Means to Be a Human Being in the New Millennium

The philosopher and author of Beyond Blood Identities offers a new paradigm of persona freedom and moral self-possession.

As a Jamaican immigrant arriving in the United States at the age of twenty, Jason Hill noticed how often Americans identified themselves in terms of race and ethnicity. He observed, for example, the reluctance of West Indians to joins 'black causes' for fear of losing their identity. He began to ask himself what sort of world he wanted to live in, a quest that in time le...