Reparations and Racial Inequality

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ID4079487
AuthorsDerrick Darby (0000-0001-8613-9174, University of Kansas, corresponding author)
Year2010
Volume5
Issue1
Pages55-66
Publication date2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePhilosophy Compass (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1747-9991 • E-ISSN: 1747-9991
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1747-9991.2009.00268.x
OpenAlexW2006311813
LanguageEN
Citations received10
References cited22

A recent development in philosophical scholarship on reparations for black chattel slavery and Jim Crow segregation is reliance upon social science in normative arguments for reparations. Although there are certainly positive things to be said in favor of an empirically informed normative argument for black reparations, given the depth of empirical disagreement about the causes of persistent racial inequalities, and the ethos of 'post-racial' America, the strongest normative argument for reparations may be one that goes through irrespective of how we ultimately explain the causes of racial inequalities. By illuminating the interplay between normative political philosophy and social scientific explanations of racial inequality in the prevailing corrective justice argument for black reparations, I shall explain why an alternative normative argument, which is not tethered to a particular empirical explanation of racial inequality, may be more appealing

Argument (complex analysis) · Criminology · Economic Justice · Economics · Epistemology · Ethos · Inequality · Law and economics · Normative · Political science · Politics · Positive economics · Scholarship · Sociology · Feminist Epistemology and Gender Studies · Law · Philosophy · Political Philosophy and Ethics

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