Peter C Myers
Biographic Data
| ID | 712697 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter C Myers |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter C |
| FAMILY NAME | Myers |
| SIGNATURE | MYERS P C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 7 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Origins of Color-Blindness
Americans in the post–civil rights era are sharply divided over the principle of color-blindness or race neutrality in law and policy, with some holding a strict adherence to the idea to be indispensable to the achievement of just and healthy race relations and others rejecting at least present appeals to color-blindness as obstructive of needed reforms. The present essay reexamines the idea in the thought of nineteenth-century antiracism activis…
Seed-Time and Harvest-Time
Frederick Douglass on Revolution and Integration
The relation of revolution to integration, involving a twofold effort to overthrow an unjust order and then to reconstitute society on terms of equality and concord between the antecedent order's ruling and subordinated classes, has long provoked controversy in Afro-American political thought. An exceptionally insightful analysis of this problematic relation appears in the political thought of the eminent nineteenth-century abolitionist and integ…
Lockeans, Progressives, and Liberationists
A Good Work for Our Race To-Day
Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument speech of 1876 is notable for its complexity, and commentators have offered widely varying readings. Critics have judged it an abdication of racial responsibility, indicative of an unwarranted optimism characteristic of Douglass's larger argument on racial reform. In this article, I explicate this speech, highlighting the complex rhetorical design in which Douglass forges a memory of Lincoln as a medium fo…
Between Divine and Human Sovereignty
John Locke's political philosophy teaches us that we must reconcile ourselves to a human condition between divine and human sovereignty involving neither complete subjection to nor complete dominion over the natural order. This article traces that teaching to Locke's account of the state of nature and argues that it forms the basis of a genuinely rationalist liberal political philosophy attentive to both the extent and the limits of human choice …
The Anxiety of Freedom
A Good Work for Our Race To-Day
Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument speech of 1876 is notable for its complexity, and commentators have offered widely varying readings. Critics have judged it an abdication of racial responsibility, indicative of an unwarranted optimism characteristic of Douglass's larger argument on racial reform. In this article, I explicate this speech, highlighting the complex rhetorical design in which Douglass forges a memory of Lincoln as a medium fo…
Seed-Time and Harvest-Time
Frederick Douglass on Revolution and Integration
The relation of revolution to integration, involving a twofold effort to overthrow an unjust order and then to reconstitute society on terms of equality and concord between the antecedent order's ruling and subordinated classes, has long provoked controversy in Afro-American political thought. An exceptionally insightful analysis of this problematic relation appears in the political thought of the eminent nineteenth-century abolitionist and integ…
Between Divine and Human Sovereignty
John Locke's political philosophy teaches us that we must reconcile ourselves to a human condition between divine and human sovereignty involving neither complete subjection to nor complete dominion over the natural order. This article traces that teaching to Locke's account of the state of nature and argues that it forms the basis of a genuinely rationalist liberal political philosophy attentive to both the extent and the limits of human choice …
The Anxiety of Freedom
Between Divine and Human Sovereignty
John Locke's political philosophy teaches us that we must reconcile ourselves to a human condition between divine and human sovereignty involving neither complete subjection to nor complete dominion over the natural order. This article traces that teaching to Locke's account of the state of nature and argues that it forms the basis of a genuinely rationalist liberal political philosophy attentive to both the extent and the limits of human choice …
A Good Work for Our Race To-Day
Frederick Douglass's Freedmen's Monument speech of 1876 is notable for its complexity, and commentators have offered widely varying readings. Critics have judged it an abdication of racial responsibility, indicative of an unwarranted optimism characteristic of Douglass's larger argument on racial reform. In this article, I explicate this speech, highlighting the complex rhetorical design in which Douglass forges a memory of Lincoln as a medium fo…
Frederick Douglass on Revolution and Integration
The relation of revolution to integration, involving a twofold effort to overthrow an unjust order and then to reconstitute society on terms of equality and concord between the antecedent order's ruling and subordinated classes, has long provoked controversy in Afro-American political thought. An exceptionally insightful analysis of this problematic relation appears in the political thought of the eminent nineteenth-century abolitionist and integ…
Lockeans, Progressives, and Liberationists
Seed-Time and Harvest-Time
The Origins of Color-Blindness
Americans in the post–civil rights era are sharply divided over the principle of color-blindness or race neutrality in law and policy, with some holding a strict adherence to the idea to be indispensable to the achievement of just and healthy race relations and others rejecting at least present appeals to color-blindness as obstructive of needed reforms. The present essay reexamines the idea in the thought of nineteenth-century antiracism activis…
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