The empire of disgust : prejudice, discrimination, and policy in India and the US / edited by Zoya Hasan, Aziz Z. Huq, Martha C. Nussbaum, Vidhu Verma.
"... the University of Chicago's Delhi Centre for generously funding the conference at which these papers were originally presented ..."--Acknowledgements. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Economic theories of discrimination: the positive and the normative / Richard H. McAdams. Stigma or red tape? Roadblocks in the use of affirmative action / Ashwini Deshpande -- Of big black bucks and golden-haired little girls: how fear of interracial sex informed Brown v. Board of Education and its resistance / Justin Driver -- Four types of racism / Emilio Comay del Junco -- A social location theory of gender: how gender borders create the category "woman" / Emily Dupree -- Gender and anti-discrimination laws in India: modesty, honour, and defiled bodies / Vidhu Verma -- Regulating retirement and wrinkles in an age of prejudice / Saul Levmore -- Ageing, stigma, and disgust / Martha Nussbaum -- Disgust or equality? Sexual orientation and Indian law / Martha Nussbaum -- The rule of disgust? Contemporary transgender rights discourse in India / Jeffrey A. Redding -- Combatting exclusions through law: rights of transgender people in India / H.R. Vasujith Ram -- Disability, exclusions and resistance: an Indian context / Anita Ghai -- Process of shaming: the limits of disability policy in India / Nandini Ghosh -- What is the case against Muslims? / Aziz Z. Huq -- Muslims and the politics of discrimination in India / Zoya Hasan -- Class and classification: the role of disgust in regulating social status / Laura Weinrib -- The point of discrimination law: securing the freedom to flourish / Tarunabh Khaitan -- Economic theories of discrimination: the positive and the normative / Richard H. McAdams.
Summary:
All known societies exclude and stigmatize one or more minority groups. Frequently, these exclusions are underwritten with a rhetoric of disgust. People of certain groups, it is alleged, are filthy, hyper-animal, or not fit to share such facilities as drinking water, food, and public swimming pools with the 'clean' and 'fully human' majority. But exclusions vary in their scope and also in the specific disgust-ideologies underlying them. In this volume, interdisciplinary scholars from India and the United States present a detailed comparative study of the varieties of prejudice and stigma that pervade contemporary social and political life. These include prejudice along the axes of caste, race, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, disability, ethnicity, religion, and economic class. In examining these forms of stigma and their intersections, the authors present theoretically pluralistic and empirically sensitive accounts that both explain group-based stigma and suggest ways forward. These forward-looking remedies, including group resistance to subordination as well as institutional and legal change, point the way towards a public culture that is informed by our diverse histories of discrimination and therefore equipped to eliminate stigma in all of its multifaceted forms.
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