Andrew Valls
Biographic Data
| ID | 1045462 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Andrew Valls |
| GIVEN NAMES | Andrew |
| FAMILY NAME | Valls |
| SIGNATURE | VALLS A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Oregon State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9833-6626 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 21 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Racial Justice and Resistance to Integration
D. C. Matthew makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate between integrationists and their critics. While Matthew's conclusion that blacks have a duty not to integrate is too strong, his account provides additional reasons why they may not want to integrate. Further reasons to resist integration may be provided by considering the contexts of integration, particularly with respect to the degree of coerciveness that they involve. I argue…
Iris Marion Young
Racial Justice
While there has been renewed attention to racial justice in the United States and around the world recently, there is a long tradition among philosophers and other theorists of reflecting on the nature racial injustice and the remedies that it demands. This article discusses two prominent approaches to racial justice, liberal egalitarian theory and critical race theory, and focuses on four issue areas: reparations, affirmative action and race-con…
Response to Justin Rose’s Review of Rethinking Racial Justice
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Racial Inequality and Black Reparations
The historical origins of present-day racial inequality suggest that it is a case of unrectified historical injustice. Patterns of segregation and inequality that characterized the Jim Crow era persist to this day and call for reparations in the form of public policies directed at achieving racial equality. Prominent liberal theories have difficulty framing this issue, and the author draws on the concept of “transitional justice” to provide the a…
Justice and Residential Segregation
The built environment in cities and the distribution of individuals within it have profound implications for the prospect of justice. Racial residential segregation raises issues of justice because of both how it came about and how it limits the quality of life for many African Americans. Some scholars argue that the solution to the disadvantages of concentrated black poverty is to “deconcentrate” the urban poor through housing vouchers. This cha…
Conclusion
Liberal political theory has far-reaching implications for issues of racial justice in the United States. It supports demands for reparations, appropriate memorialization, support for black institutions, affirmative action, dramatic improvement of the conditions in black neighborhoods, reform of the criminal justice system, and the enhancement of educational opportunities for African Americans. The underlying theme running through all of these co…
Racial Justice and Criminal Justice
The criminal justice system in the United States both reflects racial inequality in the broader society and contributes to it. The overrepresentation of African Americans among those in prison is a result of both the conditions in poor black neighborhoods and racial bias in the criminal justice system. The American system of criminal justice today is excessively punitive, when compared to previous periods and to other countries, and its harsh tre…
Rethinking Racial Justice
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…
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hum…
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
Rawls, Islam, and political constructivism
Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks
A Liberal Defense of Black Nationalism
This article brings together work on liberal political theory and black nationalism in an attempt to both strengthen the case for black nationalism and enrich and extend liberal theory. I begin by arguing that for much of U.S. history, the classical black nationalist case for an independent state finds substantial support in recent liberal theories of secession. In the post-civil rights era, black nationalists in the Black Power movement argued f…
Racism
Luc Faucher and Edouard Machery’s recent article in this journal uses evidence from psychological studies to criticize Jorge Garcia’s view of racism. This brief response argues that their critique fails because they misinterpret Garcia’s view and engage in some conceptual equivocation. It also argues that their focus on affect and human psychology is in fact compatible with Garcia’s view of racism as rooted in the human heart. Hence the evidence …
Same-sex marriage and the regulation of language
In this article, we draw an analogy between the regulation of market language (including official definitions of `organic', `ice cream', and `diamond') and the regulation of the social and legal label `marriage'. Many of the issues raised in the debate over same-sex marriage are less about access to material benefits than about the social and cultural meaning of `marriage'. After reviewing the issues in this debate, we present an analysis of the …
The Racial State ‐ Edited by David Theo Goldberg
Reconsidering the Case for Black Reparations
The issue of black reparations has received a great deal of attention in recent years. On the face of it, this development would seem odd. After all, we are more than one generation removed from the close of the civil rights era which ended de jure segregation and outlawed most forms of racial discrimination. Yet it is precisely the failure of policies adopted during the civil rights era to bring about racial equality that lies behind the attenti…
Racial Justice as Transitional Justice
In the United States today, there remain many unresolved issues related to race, in particular issues that are legacies of past injustices toward African Americans. This article argues that, in addressing these issues, we have much to learn from other societies that have undergone political transformations from regimes that systematically abuse human rights to regimes that respect, or at least purport to respect, human rights. These transitions h…
Between Past and Future
Transitional justice is an emerging field in political theory and related disciplines that examines the way that societies overcome a history of human rights abuses and establish a sound foundation for democracy and the rule of law. The field has seen a burst of scholarly activity in the last ten years or so, in the wake of the transitions to democracy from authoritarian regimes in Latin America and elsewhere, from communist regimes in Eastern Eu…
The Libertarian Case for Affirmative Action
L'affirmative action, aux Etats-Unis, est envisagee de deux manieres radicalement opposees. La premiere juge ce type de politique incompatible avec l'individualisme liberal qui suppose que les ressources soient distribuees independamment du groupe d'appartenance. La seconde considere que des mesures specifiques doivent pallier les injustices dont les afro-americains continuent a etre victimes. L'A. rappelle que Robert Nozick a propose une justifi…
Self–Development and the Liberal State
For both John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt, self–development is a central value that shapes much of their respective political philosophies. Despite this shared value, however, Mill and Humboldt came to quite different political conclusions. Mill defends an activist state that helps establish the material and institutional prerequisites for self–development, while Humboldt argues for a highly restricted state that provides only security. …
Racial Justice as Transitional Justice
In the United States today, there remain many unresolved issues related to race, in particular issues that are legacies of past injustices toward African Americans. This article argues that, in addressing these issues, we have much to learn from other societies that have undergone political transformations from regimes that systematically abuse human rights to regimes that respect, or at least purport to respect, human rights. These transitions h…
A Liberal Defense of Black Nationalism
This article brings together work on liberal political theory and black nationalism in an attempt to both strengthen the case for black nationalism and enrich and extend liberal theory. I begin by arguing that for much of U.S. history, the classical black nationalist case for an independent state finds substantial support in recent liberal theories of secession. In the post-civil rights era, black nationalists in the Black Power movement argued f…
Self–Development and the Liberal State
For both John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt, self–development is a central value that shapes much of their respective political philosophies. Despite this shared value, however, Mill and Humboldt came to quite different political conclusions. Mill defends an activist state that helps establish the material and institutional prerequisites for self–development, while Humboldt argues for a highly restricted state that provides only security. …
Racism
Luc Faucher and Edouard Machery’s recent article in this journal uses evidence from psychological studies to criticize Jorge Garcia’s view of racism. This brief response argues that their critique fails because they misinterpret Garcia’s view and engage in some conceptual equivocation. It also argues that their focus on affect and human psychology is in fact compatible with Garcia’s view of racism as rooted in the human heart. Hence the evidence …
The Libertarian Case for Affirmative Action
L'affirmative action, aux Etats-Unis, est envisagee de deux manieres radicalement opposees. La premiere juge ce type de politique incompatible avec l'individualisme liberal qui suppose que les ressources soient distribuees independamment du groupe d'appartenance. La seconde considere que des mesures specifiques doivent pallier les injustices dont les afro-americains continuent a etre victimes. L'A. rappelle que Robert Nozick a propose une justifi…
Self–Development and the Liberal State
For both John Stuart Mill and Wilhelm von Humboldt, self–development is a central value that shapes much of their respective political philosophies. Despite this shared value, however, Mill and Humboldt came to quite different political conclusions. Mill defends an activist state that helps establish the material and institutional prerequisites for self–development, while Humboldt argues for a highly restricted state that provides only security. …
Between Past and Future
Transitional justice is an emerging field in political theory and related disciplines that examines the way that societies overcome a history of human rights abuses and establish a sound foundation for democracy and the rule of law. The field has seen a burst of scholarly activity in the last ten years or so, in the wake of the transitions to democracy from authoritarian regimes in Latin America and elsewhere, from communist regimes in Eastern Eu…
Racial Justice as Transitional Justice
In the United States today, there remain many unresolved issues related to race, in particular issues that are legacies of past injustices toward African Americans. This article argues that, in addressing these issues, we have much to learn from other societies that have undergone political transformations from regimes that systematically abuse human rights to regimes that respect, or at least purport to respect, human rights. These transitions h…
Reconsidering the Case for Black Reparations
The issue of black reparations has received a great deal of attention in recent years. On the face of it, this development would seem odd. After all, we are more than one generation removed from the close of the civil rights era which ended de jure segregation and outlawed most forms of racial discrimination. Yet it is precisely the failure of policies adopted during the civil rights era to bring about racial equality that lies behind the attenti…
The Racial State ‐ Edited by David Theo Goldberg
Same-sex marriage and the regulation of language
In this article, we draw an analogy between the regulation of market language (including official definitions of `organic', `ice cream', and `diamond') and the regulation of the social and legal label `marriage'. Many of the issues raised in the debate over same-sex marriage are less about access to material benefits than about the social and cultural meaning of `marriage'. After reviewing the issues in this debate, we present an analysis of the …
Racism
Luc Faucher and Edouard Machery’s recent article in this journal uses evidence from psychological studies to criticize Jorge Garcia’s view of racism. This brief response argues that their critique fails because they misinterpret Garcia’s view and engage in some conceptual equivocation. It also argues that their focus on affect and human psychology is in fact compatible with Garcia’s view of racism as rooted in the human heart. Hence the evidence …
Racial Justice in the Age of Obama by Roy L. Brooks
A Liberal Defense of Black Nationalism
This article brings together work on liberal political theory and black nationalism in an attempt to both strengthen the case for black nationalism and enrich and extend liberal theory. I begin by arguing that for much of U.S. history, the classical black nationalist case for an independent state finds substantial support in recent liberal theories of secession. In the post-civil rights era, black nationalists in the Black Power movement argued f…
Rawls, Islam, and political constructivism
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
Racial Inequality and Black Reparations
The historical origins of present-day racial inequality suggest that it is a case of unrectified historical injustice. Patterns of segregation and inequality that characterized the Jim Crow era persist to this day and call for reparations in the form of public policies directed at achieving racial equality. Prominent liberal theories have difficulty framing this issue, and the author draws on the concept of “transitional justice” to provide the a…
Justice and Residential Segregation
The built environment in cities and the distribution of individuals within it have profound implications for the prospect of justice. Racial residential segregation raises issues of justice because of both how it came about and how it limits the quality of life for many African Americans. Some scholars argue that the solution to the disadvantages of concentrated black poverty is to “deconcentrate” the urban poor through housing vouchers. This cha…
Conclusion
Liberal political theory has far-reaching implications for issues of racial justice in the United States. It supports demands for reparations, appropriate memorialization, support for black institutions, affirmative action, dramatic improvement of the conditions in black neighborhoods, reform of the criminal justice system, and the enhancement of educational opportunities for African Americans. The underlying theme running through all of these co…
Racial Justice and Criminal Justice
The criminal justice system in the United States both reflects racial inequality in the broader society and contributes to it. The overrepresentation of African Americans among those in prison is a result of both the conditions in poor black neighborhoods and racial bias in the criminal justice system. The American system of criminal justice today is excessively punitive, when compared to previous periods and to other countries, and its harsh tre…
Rethinking Racial Justice
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…
David Hume on Morals, Politics, and Society
A compact and accessible edition of Hume’s political and moral writings with essays by a distinguished set of contributors A key figure of the Scottish Enlightenment, David Hume was a major influence on thinkers ranging from Kant and Schopenhauer to Einstein and Popper, and his writings continue to be deeply relevant today. With four essays by leading Hume scholars exploring his complex intellectual legacy, this volume presents an overview of Hum…
Response to Justin Rose’s Review of Rethinking Racial Justice
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Iris Marion Young
Racial Justice
While there has been renewed attention to racial justice in the United States and around the world recently, there is a long tradition among philosophers and other theorists of reflecting on the nature racial injustice and the remedies that it demands. This article discusses two prominent approaches to racial justice, liberal egalitarian theory and critical race theory, and focuses on four issue areas: reparations, affirmative action and race-con…
Racial Justice and Resistance to Integration
D. C. Matthew makes an important contribution to the ongoing debate between integrationists and their critics. While Matthew's conclusion that blacks have a duty not to integrate is too strong, his account provides additional reasons why they may not want to integrate. Further reasons to resist integration may be provided by considering the contexts of integration, particularly with respect to the degree of coerciveness that they involve. I argue…
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