Review “Rationalizations and Race Relations” Everett C. Hugues (1947)
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Everett Hugues was a famous North American sociologist belonging to the school of Symbolic Interactionism. In this brief article, he examines racial differences in the United States in light of the rationale used by the sciences, including social science, to talk about this issue. Hugues establishes two key points: science is not a field exempt from unfair notions about racial differences, rather, it is a new way of legitimizing racial differences, now supported on the basis of incomplete syllogisms; and that the work of the defenders of racial justice is mainly framed by the logical challenges launched by those who state that racial differences express superiorities of one group over another. Hugues argues that as long as the conversation about racial differences is framed by those who defend racial inequality, there will be little chance of understanding and advancing this discussion.
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