Index ( 275 )racial epistemology, 53– 58, 67– 69
racial exploitation
academic history’s neglect of, 69
American socio- political culture’s eliding
of, 114– 15
black radical liberalism’s examination
of, 204– 5
capitalism and, 126
class exploitation compared to, 118, 120,
122– 27, 129, 177– 80
contractarianism’s ignoring of, 140– 41
economic consequences of, 128– 30
educational consequences of, 128– 30
housing conditions and, 128– 30
legacy effects of, 125, 129– 31
liberalism and, xvii, 18, 119– 20
objections to analysis
emphasizing, 121– 22
racial consciousness and, 131– 33
racial liberalism’s failure to
recognize, 44– 47
Rawls’s silence on, xix, 16– 17, 32, 35, 37,
45– 47, 87, 139– 63, 166– 69, 177, 180,
193, 207, 235n7
rectificatory justice as response to,
131– 35, 214– 15
segregation and, 46
social contract and, 36
specific examples of, 127– 29
state’s role in, 126, 129
white ignorance and, 70
whites’ benefits from, 130– 32
racial justice. See rectificatory justice
racial liberalism
black radical liberalism as response to,
208, 215
civil rights and, xv
class consciousness and, xviii
critiques of, xiv, xvi, xix– xxi, 31, 201
definitions of, 5, 29, 31
efforts to deracialize, xv, xvii, 35– 48
evolving nature of, 26– 27
gender hierarchy in, 31
hegemony of, 31, 206
patriarchal liberalism and, xvi
personhood restricted in, 29, 31
Rawls and, xx, 32, 141
rectificatory justice as violation of, 48
segregation opposed in different sense
of, xiv– xv
social contract and, 29, 43, 48, 159
whites’ benefits from, 7
“The Racial Polity” (Mills), 196– 97
The Racial State (Goldberg), 40
racism
in academia, 194
academic disciplines’ neglect of, 69
African slavery and, 3– 4, 124
American sociology on, 115
anti- imperialism and, 26
basic liberties (Rawls) violated by, 179
capitalism and, 4, 126- 27
Christianity and, 108
“color- blind racism” and, 42, 176
costs to whole population of, 133
definitions of, 4
Eurocentrism and, 26
fundamental social change required to
defeat, 7, 9, 126, 132- 35, 206, 213- 15
global struggles against, 33– 34
group domination and, 5
ideational sense of, 4
imperialism and, xiii, xv, 3– 6, 124,
154, 196
individual prejudice and, 5, 117– 18, 132
institutional forms of, 4, 117– 18, 148,
177, 202
Kant and, xviii, 6, 31, 91, 95– 112, 141,
153, 202– 3, 209, 230n36, 230n46
liberalism and, xiii, xv– xviii, 5– 6, 13,
24, 26, 30– 31, 43, 45, 48, 86, 92– 97,
113, 117, 120, 124, 151– 52, 178,
191– 93, 204
modernity and, 6, 35, 48, 122, 127, 141,
195– 96, 232n4
non- ideal theory’s confronting of, 35– 36,
82, 113, 158, 160, 172, 177, 207
normative theory and, 164
personhood and, 92– 94, 98– 112, 178,
195– 96, 210
political philosophy’s neglect of, 44,
93– 94, 110– 13, 115– 16, 120, 156,
161– 62, 189, 192, 195
political science on, 115
Rawlsian philosophical tradition’s silence
on, xix, 16– 17, 32, 35, 37, 45– 47,
87, 139– 63, 166– 69, 177, 180, 193,
207, 235n7
Rawls’s condemnation of, 141– 42,
148, 237n46
Social Darwinism and, 108
social epistemology and, 52