The racial injustice that continues to plague the United States
couldn't be a clearer challenge to the country's idea of itself as
a liberal and democratic society, where all citizens have a chance
at a decent life. Moreover, it raises deep questions about the
adequacy of our political ideas, particularly liberal political
theory, to guide us out of the quagmire of inequality. So what does
justice demand in response? What must a liberal society do to
address the legacies of its past, and how should we aim to
reconceive liberalism in order to do so? In this book, Andrew Valls
considers two solutions, one posed from the political right and one
from the left. From the right is the idea that norms of equal
treatment require that race be treated as irrelevant-in other
words, that public policy and political institutions be race-blind.
From the left is the idea that race-conscious policies are
temporary, and are justifiable insofar as they promote diversity.
This book takes issue with both of these sets of views, and
therefore with the constricted ways in which racial justice is
debated in the United States today. Valls argues that liberal
theory permits, and in some cases requires, race-conscious policies
and institutional arrangements in the pursuit of racial equality.
In doing so, he aims to do two things: first, to reorient the terms
of racial justice and, secondly, to make liberal theory confront
its tendency to ignore race in favor of an underspecified
commitment to multiculturalism. He argues that the insistence that
race-conscious policies be temporary is harmful to the cause of
racial justice, defends black-dominated institutions and
communities as a viable alternative to integration, and argues
against the tendency to subsume claims for racial justice,
particularly as they regard African Americans, under more general
arguments for diversity.
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