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Kevin M. Graham

Beyond Redistribution: White Supremacy and Racial Justice

Beyond Redistribution: White Supremacy and Racial Justice

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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.

Binding Type: Paperback
Author: Graham, Kevin M.
Published: 11/16/2011
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 9780739130971
Pages: 115
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 6.00w x 0.50d
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