( 280 ) Indexuniversalism
black radical liberalism and, 201
Christianity and, 108
generalism in ethics and, 81– 82
Kant and, 98, 106– 7
liberalism’s aspirations toward, 13, 17, 22,
26, 31, 201
liberalism’s failures to achieve, 22, 31,
92– 93, 98, 106– 7
non- ideal theory and, 73
social contract and fictions of, 37, 41
University of Illinois, Chicago (UIC), 184
University of Toronto, 181
Untermenschen. See sub- persons
utilitarianism
consequentialism of, 94
contractarianism contrasted with, 12
liberalism and, xiii, 5, 12, 15, 28, 94
personhood and, 94
social contract theory and, 29
Valls, Andrew, 198, 205
Veltman, Andrea, 34
veritistic epistemology, 51– 53
Versailles Conference (1919), 33– 34, 198
“View of the World from 9th Avenue”
(Steinberg), 61, 225n39
Voice, Paul, 163
Voting Rights Act of 1965, 42, 215
The Wages of Whiteness (Roediger), 8
Wagner Act, 129
Walker, David, 155
Walzer, Michael, 30
Ward, Deborah, 199
Wartofsky, Marx, 240n4
Wells, Ida B., 155
Wenar, Leif, 163
Wertheimer, Alan, 119– 20
West, Cornel
Harvard University and, 184
as leading figure in Africana philosophy,
181– 82, 185, 190
on principles of arriving at social
justice, 164
Prophesy Deliverance! and, 182
Race Matters and, 191
We Who Are Dark (Shelby), 183, 185
“What to the Slave Is the Fourth July?”
(Douglass), 78
Wheeler, Ed, 68
When Affirmative Action Was White
(Katznelson), 199
White by Law (López), 199
white ignorance
African American authors’ insights
into, 53– 54
black racial ignorance and, 57– 58
as a doxastic disposition, 58– 59
historicization of, 56
Melville’s fiction and, 54– 55
moral ignorance and, 58
motivated irrationality and, 70
nonwhites’ manifestation of, 57
racial epistemology and, 55– 58
racism and, 56– 57
safeguarding of, 71
social epistemology and, 52
structural causation of, xvii, 57, 64
white amnesia and, 65
white group interest and, 69
white supremacy and, 48, 51, 57,
63– 64, 66– 67
white liberalism. See racial liberalism
whiteness. See also white ignorance; white
supremacy
African Americans’ insights
regarding, 53– 54
American political rights and, 115
boundaries of, 127
color- blindness and, 85
critical theory and, 204
Eurocentrism and, 62
identities overlapping with, 58
Kant on, 95
Melville’s fiction and, 54– 55
modernity and, 56
“payoff ” from, 114, 120, 127– 31, 134
personhood and, 92– 93, 99, 102,
105, 110
political philosophy’s assumptions and,
116, 180– 82, 184, 191– 200, 206– 7
as property, 48
of Rawls’s perspective, 150, 161, 180
social cognition and, 59– 71
U.S. citizenship laws and, 41
Whiteness of a Different Color ( Jacobson),
127, 199
white normativity, 61, 63– 64, 82
White Out: The Continuing Significance of
Racism (Doane and Andersen), 120
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