Finding Myself: Essays on Race, Politics & Culture, written by Clem Seecharan

Three Essays on Race and Politics

Three Essays on Race and Politics

Essays on the Politics of Taxation

Taxation is a key activity of any state and a constant point of political struggle. The structure of taxation is continuously changing and evolving, and its size has grown dramatically during the last two hundred years. Many of the cross-national patterns we observe today are the result of centuries old conflicts and challenges, hence we need to take history into account if we want to understan...

Doctors, politics and society: historical essays

taking such a large canvas to fill out that it really fails to say anything new and does not even always acknowledge its sources. But the defect is compensated in the discussion of the eating habits and behaviour of the young, a social group less studied in medical history than ought to have been the case. Its last section is titled, rhetorically, 'Do doctors make their patients sick?' and the ...

Reorienting the Race Politics Debate

Is race politics about racism, ideology, or group conflict? After decades, this debate seems scarcely closer to resolution, despite the enormous theoretical, empirical, and normative issues at stake. I argue that a misguided approach to interpreting public opinion has stymied the debate. All three theories implicitly try to read a person’s motives for supporting or opposing proposals off of the...