Bruce Baum
Biographic Data
| ID | 3921907 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bruce Baum |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bruce |
| FAMILY NAME | Baum |
| SIGNATURE | BAUM B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 20 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
On the Political Sociology of Intersectional Equality and Difference
This article contends that Axel Honneth’s critical social theory provides a compelling general framework with which to map out the political sociology of social equality in a way that takes due account of class-based inequalities, social identity differences, and ecological challenges of contemporary globalized societies. Honneth joins an emphasis on equal respect for all—a core aspect of equality in modern democratic societies—with an account of…
Terence Keel. Divine Variations
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
Bruce Baum's "The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity" examines the historical construction and eventual deconstruction of the "Caucasian" race as a scientific and social category. Tracing its origins from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth, Baum argues that the concept of a Caucasian race, encompassing Europeans, North Africans, and West Asians, was a product of specific political and social…
Music to Their Ears
Nancy Love’s book Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy, about white nationalist music in the contemporary United States (US), speaks presciently to current events.1 The rea
The Post-Liberal Imagination
In The Post-Liberal Imagination , Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era.
Post-Liberal Imagination
Decolonizing Critical Theory
The Most Damage I Can Do
Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom
Introduction: Berlin and the Politics of Freedom Part I: Berlin in Context 1. Two Concepts of in Context James Tully 2. In Defense of Berlin: A Reply to James Tully George Crowder Part II: Rethinking and Freedom 3. Defending Isaiah Berlin's Distinctions between Negative and Positive Freedoms Maria Dimova-Cookson. 4. Freedom, Autonomy, and Social Selves John Christman 5. Retrieving Positive Freedom and Why It Matters Carol C. Gould 6. Republicanis…
Apes, Humans, and Other Animals
Governing “Democratic” Equality
This article examines tensions in the egalitarianism of J. S. Mill and R. H. Tawney alongside national education systems to develop a critical theory of democratic equality. Mill and Tawney advanced strong conceptions of democratic equality but with meritocratic elements that foreshadowed liberal governmental practices that have reconciled substantial inequalities in modern capitalist democracies with official commitments to the moral equality of…
Hollywood’s Crisis of Capitalism 2011
There is a revealing moment near the end of Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics), the recent documentary film on the financial crisis. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then Managing Director of the Internati
Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama
Three popular US movies released at the end of 2009, Invictus, Precious, and Avatar, work in related ways to lay bare and also reinforce prevailing ideas in the United States and beyond about the p
Humpday,” “Soul Power,” and the Politics of Hip
Racially Writing the Republic
The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers Pictures, 2008)
Hollywood movies often reflect their historical moments in intriguing ways. The latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight (2008), directed by Christopher Nolan, is a striking example of this. In telling
Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World
Odd Tribes
Book Review| January 01 2007 Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People, John Hartigan. Bruce Baum Bruce Baum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (2): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501812 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce Baum; Odd Tribes: …
Feminist Politics of Recognition
Millian Radical Democracy
This paper returns to J. S. Mill to draw out democratic conceptions of education and equality that challenge still-current conceptions of intractable human inequalities. Mill acknowledges that individuals differ in abilities. Nonetheless, he develops a broad conception of ‘education for freedom’ and insists that only ‘wretched social arrangements’ prevent virtually all people from exercising capacities for self-government in citizenship, marriage…
J. S. Mill on Freedom and Power
John Stuart Mill is justly famous for his account of how oppressive social and political power limit individual freedom. Yet he also powerfully challenges the equating of freedom with an absence of external constraints and offers an important corrective to the view that freedom and power are inversely related. Mill's conception of freedom emphasizes the necessity of autonomy, a variety of choices and possibilities, and means and opportunities for…
Feminism, Liberalism and Cultural Pluralism
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
Bruce Baum's "The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity" examines the historical construction and eventual deconstruction of the "Caucasian" race as a scientific and social category. Tracing its origins from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth, Baum argues that the concept of a Caucasian race, encompassing Europeans, North Africans, and West Asians, was a product of specific political and social…
Decolonizing Critical Theory
Millian Radical Democracy
This paper returns to J. S. Mill to draw out democratic conceptions of education and equality that challenge still-current conceptions of intractable human inequalities. Mill acknowledges that individuals differ in abilities. Nonetheless, he develops a broad conception of ‘education for freedom’ and insists that only ‘wretched social arrangements’ prevent virtually all people from exercising capacities for self-government in citizenship, marriage…
J. S. Mill on Freedom and Power
John Stuart Mill is justly famous for his account of how oppressive social and political power limit individual freedom. Yet he also powerfully challenges the equating of freedom with an absence of external constraints and offers an important corrective to the view that freedom and power are inversely related. Mill's conception of freedom emphasizes the necessity of autonomy, a variety of choices and possibilities, and means and opportunities for…
Feminism, Liberalism and Cultural Pluralism
Music to Their Ears
Nancy Love’s book Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy, about white nationalist music in the contemporary United States (US), speaks presciently to current events.1 The rea
The Most Damage I Can Do
Governing “Democratic” Equality
This article examines tensions in the egalitarianism of J. S. Mill and R. H. Tawney alongside national education systems to develop a critical theory of democratic equality. Mill and Tawney advanced strong conceptions of democratic equality but with meritocratic elements that foreshadowed liberal governmental practices that have reconciled substantial inequalities in modern capitalist democracies with official commitments to the moral equality of…
Hollywood’s Crisis of Capitalism 2011
There is a revealing moment near the end of Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics), the recent documentary film on the financial crisis. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then Managing Director of the Internati
Humpday,” “Soul Power,” and the Politics of Hip
Feminism, Liberalism and Cultural Pluralism
J. S. Mill on Freedom and Power
John Stuart Mill is justly famous for his account of how oppressive social and political power limit individual freedom. Yet he also powerfully challenges the equating of freedom with an absence of external constraints and offers an important corrective to the view that freedom and power are inversely related. Mill's conception of freedom emphasizes the necessity of autonomy, a variety of choices and possibilities, and means and opportunities for…
Millian Radical Democracy
This paper returns to J. S. Mill to draw out democratic conceptions of education and equality that challenge still-current conceptions of intractable human inequalities. Mill acknowledges that individuals differ in abilities. Nonetheless, he develops a broad conception of ‘education for freedom’ and insists that only ‘wretched social arrangements’ prevent virtually all people from exercising capacities for self-government in citizenship, marriage…
Feminist Politics of Recognition
Keep on Rockin’ in the Free World
Odd Tribes
Book Review| January 01 2007 Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People Odd Tribes: Toward a Cultural Analysis of White People, John Hartigan. Bruce Baum Bruce Baum Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Journal of American Ethnic History (2007) 26 (2): 110–111. https://doi.org/10.2307/27501812 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Bruce Baum; Odd Tribes: …
Racially Writing the Republic
The Dark Knight (Warner Brothers Pictures, 2008)
Hollywood movies often reflect their historical moments in intriguing ways. The latest Batman movie, The Dark Knight (2008), directed by Christopher Nolan, is a striking example of this. In telling
Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama
Three popular US movies released at the end of 2009, Invictus, Precious, and Avatar, work in related ways to lay bare and also reinforce prevailing ideas in the United States and beyond about the p
Humpday,” “Soul Power,” and the Politics of Hip
Governing “Democratic” Equality
This article examines tensions in the egalitarianism of J. S. Mill and R. H. Tawney alongside national education systems to develop a critical theory of democratic equality. Mill and Tawney advanced strong conceptions of democratic equality but with meritocratic elements that foreshadowed liberal governmental practices that have reconciled substantial inequalities in modern capitalist democracies with official commitments to the moral equality of…
Hollywood’s Crisis of Capitalism 2011
There is a revealing moment near the end of Inside Job (Sony Pictures Classics), the recent documentary film on the financial crisis. Dominique Strauss-Kahn, then Managing Director of the Internati
Apes, Humans, and Other Animals
Isaiah Berlin and the Politics of Freedom
Introduction: Berlin and the Politics of Freedom Part I: Berlin in Context 1. Two Concepts of in Context James Tully 2. In Defense of Berlin: A Reply to James Tully George Crowder Part II: Rethinking and Freedom 3. Defending Isaiah Berlin's Distinctions between Negative and Positive Freedoms Maria Dimova-Cookson. 4. Freedom, Autonomy, and Social Selves John Christman 5. Retrieving Positive Freedom and Why It Matters Carol C. Gould 6. Republicanis…
The Most Damage I Can Do
Decolonizing Critical Theory
The Post-Liberal Imagination
In The Post-Liberal Imagination , Bruce Baum approaches American liberalism 'in a critical spirit' by examining the relationship between popular culture and politics. The book analyzes movies, television, and popular music to rethink the liberal views of democracy, equality, racism, dissent, and animal rights in the Bush-Obama era.
Post-Liberal Imagination
Music to Their Ears
Nancy Love’s book Trendy Fascism: White Power Music and the Future of Democracy, about white nationalist music in the contemporary United States (US), speaks presciently to current events.1 The rea
Terence Keel. Divine Variations
The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race
Bruce Baum's "The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race: A Political History of Racial Identity" examines the historical construction and eventual deconstruction of the "Caucasian" race as a scientific and social category. Tracing its origins from the late eighteenth century through the twentieth, Baum argues that the concept of a Caucasian race, encompassing Europeans, North Africans, and West Asians, was a product of specific political and social…
On the Political Sociology of Intersectional Equality and Difference
This article contends that Axel Honneth’s critical social theory provides a compelling general framework with which to map out the political sociology of social equality in a way that takes due account of class-based inequalities, social identity differences, and ecological challenges of contemporary globalized societies. Honneth joins an emphasis on equal respect for all—a core aspect of equality in modern democratic societies—with an account of…
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