Rethinking Racial Justice

Datos Bibliográficos

ID20032891
AutoresAndrew Valls (0000-0001-9833-6626, autor de correspondencia)
Año2018
Páginas272
Fecha de publicación2018-09-20
Open AccessNo
TipoBOOK
RevistaRethinking Racial Justice (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialOxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1093/oso/9780190860554.001.0001
OpenAlexW2889596896
Open LibraryOL28696295M
ISBN9780190860554
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas16

American society continues to be characterized by deep racial inequality that is a legacy of slavery and Jim Crow. What does justice demand in response? In this book, Andrew Valls argues that justice demands quite a lot—the United States has yet to fully reckon with its racial past, or to confront its ongoing legacies. Valls argues that liberal values and principles have far-reaching implications in the context of the deep injustices along racial lines in American society. In successive chapters, the book takes on such controversial issues as reparations, memorialization, the fate of black institutions and communities, affirmative action, residential segregation, the relation between racial inequality and the criminal justice system, and the intersection of race and public schools. In all of these contexts, Valls argues that liberal values of liberty and equality require profound changes in public policy and institutional arrangements in order to advance the cause of racial equality. Racial inequality will not go away on its own, Valls argues, and past and present injustices create an obligation to address it. But we must rethink some of the fundamental assumptions that shape mainstream approaches to the problem, particularly those that rely on integration as the primary route to racial equality

Affirmative action · Context (archaeology) · Criminology · Economic Justice · Law and economics · Mainstream · Obligation · Political science · Racial equality · Racism · Sociology · History · Law · Public Administration · Race, History, and American Society · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies · Affirmative action programs · African americans · Government policy · Political aspects · race relations · Reparations · Social conditions · Social justice · Social policy · united states