Beyond redistribution
Subtitle: white supremacy and racial justice
By: Kevin M. Graham.
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Lanham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 115
ISBN-13: 9780739130964; 9780739130988
Subjects: Racism; Whites -- Race identity; White supremacy movements; Distributive justice
Description: "Since the publication of John Rawls's A Theory of Justice in 1971, political philosophers in the English-speaking world have shared a broad consensus that social justice should be understood as a matter of fair distribution of social resources. Many contemporary political philosophers disagree sharply about what would count as a fair distribution of social resources, yet agree that if social resources were to be distributed fairly, then social justice would exist." "In Beyond Redistribution, Kevin M. Graham argues that political theories operating on a distributive understanding of social justice fail to address adequately certain forms of social injustice related to race. Graham argues that political philosophy could understand race-related injustice more fully by shifting its focus away from distributive inequities between whites and nonwhites and toward white supremacy, the unfair power relationships that allow whites to dominate and oppress nonwhites. Beyond Redistribution offers a careful, detailed critique of the positions of leading contemporary liberal political philosophers on race-related issues of social justice. Graham's analysis of the racial politics of police violence and public education in Omaha, Nebraska, vividly illustrates why the search for racial justice in the United States must move beyond redistribution."--Jacket
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Racism or white supremacy? Understanding race-related injustice; title: Police violence and the white supremacist state; title: The political significance of social identity; title: Autonomy, individualism, and social justice; title: Distributive justice and the injustice of hate speech; title: After the buses stop running: distributive justice or dialogue?