Color Conscious: The Political Morality of Race

In America today, the problem of achieving racial justice—whether through "color-blind" policies or through affirmative action—provokes more noisy name-calling than fruitful deliberation. In Color Conscious, K. Anthony Appiah and Amy Gutmann, two eminent moral and political philosophers, seek to clear the ground for a discussion of the place of race in politics and in our moral lives. Provocative and insightful, their essays tackle different aspects of the question of racial justice; togeth...