Revisiting the cruel optimism of racial justice – A response to Fadil, Favell and St Louis
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12697444 |
|---|---|
| Authors | N Meer (0000-0003-3206-735X, Department of School of Social and Political Science, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 6 |
| Pages | 980-985 |
| Publication date | 2023-06-26 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Ethnicities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1468-7968 • E-ISSN: 1741-2706 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/14687968231183976 |
| OpenAlex | W4382059450 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 13 |
The Cruel Optimism of Racial Justice (2022) adopts neither an unswerving belief in the teleology of justice nor the pessimism that approaches to justice are necessarily incapable of grasping racism. It maintains instead that the accumulated struggle for racial justice invites us to recognise certain starting points, including our organising categories, before tracing seeming success and failure empirically through case studies. In their rigorous and wide-ranging appraisals, Fadil, Favell and St Louis identify a number of possible weaknesses as well as strengths in this approach, and I take the opportunity of this reply to respond to the former
Criminology · Economic Justice · Environmental ethics · Epistemology · Optimism · Pessimism · Political science · Racism · Sociology · Teleology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics · Psychology · Race, Genetics, and Society · Social Psychology
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| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |