Whiteness, Fair Play, and Reparation

Toward A Political Inroad
Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-3-031-93767-5
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 411 g

Focused on some of the most conspicuous forms of social, psychological, and ideological resistance to the very idea of reparations,  develops a new fairness-based argument designed to help sensitize opponents to the force of more familiar calls for racial redress. Drawing on a range of empirical literature on whites’ attitudes toward race-conscious policy, and related sociological analyses of the white moral imagination, the book argues that the lens of "fair play" can help provide socially and morally threatened whites with a psychologically viable route toward appreciating their personal enmeshment within structures of racial hierarchy.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Frigault, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Theorie, Politische Philosophie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Entering the Fray.- 2. Reparations and the Problem of Whiteness.- 3. Fair Play and Political Responsibility.- 4. Fair Play and Reparative Justice.- 5. Three Alternative Approaches.- 6. Fair Play as Political Inroad.- 7. Conclusion: Clearing Ground.

Über Autor(innen)

Joseph Frigault is Visiting Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Claremont McKenna College.