Identity Captured by Law : An Essay on the Distribution of Incomes

How the law decides who the members of minority groups are while avoiding discrimination and respecting self-determination. In Identity Captured by Law, Sébastien Grammond explains how minority rights make identity legally relevant, providing a detailed account of struggles that have been fought concerning Indian status and admission to minority-language schools. Setting his analysis of the law in the wider interdisciplinary context of anthropology and political theory, Grammond assesses whether a group's membership rules are an accurate reflection of their ethnicity and are based on sound justifications of minority rights. He argues that membership rules do not violate equality rights if there is sufficient correspondence between the legal criteria that determine membership and the group's own cultural or relational conceptions of their ethnic identity. Comprehensive, interdisciplinary, and original in its comparison of indigenous peoples and linguistic minorities, Identity Captured by Law is an invaluable resource for legal and political scholars and students, as well as anyone interested in the controversies surrounding the legal recognition of identity. Cover Title Copyright Preface Contents 1 The Present Discontents 2 Minimum Practicable Inequality 3 Education and Inequality 4 Forces in Society that Promote Equality 5 Inequality and Politics 6 Ethics and Economics of Redistribution 7 Inequality and Developing Economies 8 Income Determination 9 Acceptable Inequality Index of Names