( 274 ) Indexpersons, definition of, 91– 92
Perspectives on Politics (journal), 163
Pettit, Philip, 17, 196– 98
The Philosophical Forum (journal), 182
Philosophy Born of Struggle (Harris), 182, 184
Philosophy Born of Struggle
conferences, 184
phlogiston, 3– 4
Piketty, Thomas, 206
Pittman, John, 182
Pitts, Jennifer, 6, 26, 198
Plato, 33, 79, 86
pleonexia (illicit advantage), 211
Plessy v. Ferguson, 42, 156
plutocracy, xvi, xix, 9– 10, 134, 206
Pogge, Thomas, 37– 38, 197
Political Liberalism (R awls)
on African slavery, 143, 145
“comprehensive” versus “political”
liberalism in, 30
on the Holocaust, 143
on King, 143
race and racism discussed in, 35, 141– 43,
152, 167– 68
political philosophy
anthropology and physical geography’s
relevance for, 105– 6
authors of color absent from
anthologies of, 33
black radical liberalism and, 206
Companion to Contemporary Political
Philosophy (Blackwell) and, 196– 98
egalitarianism presented as accomplished
reality in, 92
Eurocentrism and, 112, 197
exploitation excluded from analysis
in, 119– 20
feminist critiques of, 32, 192
ideal theory and, xviii, 16, 89, 209– 10
imperialism and, 198, 200
normative emphasis within, 6– 7, 34, 44,
77, 120
race and racism excluded from analysis
in, 44, 93– 94, 110– 13, 115– 16, 120,
156, 161– 62, 189, 192, 195
The Racial Contact (Mills) and, 191– 92
R aw l s ’s A Theory of Justice as seminal text
in, 139, 162
scholars of color under- represented in
discipline of, 32– 33, 139, 156, 186,
200, 210
whiteness of perspectives in, 116,
180– 82, 184, 191– 200, 206– 7
women underrepresented in discipline of,
32– 33, 156, 185
Politics, Groups, and Identities (journal), 193
possessive individualism, 20– 21
post- colonial theory, xiv, xx, 28, 33
post- structuralism, xiv, 51– 52, 120
Preston- Roedder, Ryan, 186
property rights
African slavery as violation of, 88
Kant and, 31
liberalism and, xvi, 5
Locke and, 25, 31, 45– 47
Nozick and, 45– 46, 88
patriarchy and, 6
people of color’s limited access to, 47
reparations and, 175
Prophesy Deliverance! (West), 182
public reason (Rawls), 143, 168, 175– 76Quine, W. V. O., 50race
as biological category, 4, 8, 121
class and, 7– 9
eliminativist approaches to, 3– 4
ontology and, 6, 16, 105, 206, 214
philosophy’s undertheorizing of, 194– 95
as social category, 4– 5, 8, 121
successor concepts of, 3
Race and Racism in Modern Philosophy
(Valls), 198
Race and Social Justice (McGary), 164
“Race and Social Justice: Rawlsian
Considerations” (Shelby), 165– 66
Race and the American Legal Process
(Higginbotham), 199
Race and the Enlightenment (Eze), 198
The Racial Contract (Mills)
American Political Science Association
panel (2013) on, 193
on epistemology of white ignorance,
xvii, 51
motivations for writing, 189
non- ideal theory and, 140
publication history of, 190
Radical Philosophy Association
symposium on, 192– 93
responses to, 190– 93
on system of white supremacy, 36, 51http://www.ebook3000.com