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Usually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and policies. This book draws on the synergy of political theory and civil rights law to expand the boundary of racial justice and consider the way in which racial discrimination happens outside the governmental or public sphere. 'Private racism' is about recognizing that racial injustice also occurs in our private lives, including the television and movie industry, cyberspace, our intimate and sexual lives, and the reproductive market. Professor Sonu Bedi argues that private racism is wrong, enlarging the boundary of justice in a way that is also consistent with our Constitution. A more just society is one that seeks to address rather than ignore this less visible form of racism

Usually, when we discuss racial injustice, we discuss racism in our public or political life. This means that we often focus on how the state discriminates on the basis of race in its application and enforcement of laws and policies. This book draws on the synergy of political theory and civil rights law to expand the boundary of racial justice and consider the way in which racial discrimination happens outside the governmental or public sphere. 'Private racism' is about recognizing that racial injustice also occurs in our private lives, including the television and movie industry, cyberspace, our intimate and sexual lives, and the reproductive market. Professor Sonu Bedi argues that private racism is wrong, enlarging the boundary of justice in a way that is also consistent with our Constitution. A more just society is one that seeks to address rather than ignore this less visible form of racism.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction / Pataki, Tamas -- Part I. What Is Racism? -- 1. The Nature of Racism / Dummett, Michael -- 2. Three Sites for Racism: Social Structures, Valuings, and Vice / Garcia, J. L.A. -- 3. What Do Accounts of"Racism" Do? / Blum, Lawrence -- 4. Philosophy and Racism / Levine, Michael P. -- 5. Oppressions: Racial and Other / Haslanger, Sally -- Part II. The Psychology Of Racism -- 6. Racism as Manic Defense / Altman, Neil / Tiemann, Johanna -- 7. The Characters of Violence and Prejudice / Young-Bruehl, Elisabeth -- 8. Racism and Impure Hearts / Lengbeyer, Lawrence A. -- 9. Psychoanalysis, Racism, and Envy / Pataki, Tamas -- Part III. Racism, Morality, Politics -- 10. Why We Should Not Think of Ourselves as Divided by Race / Boxill, Bernard -- 11. Upside-down Equality: A Response to Kantian Thought / Thomas, Laurence -- 12. The Social Element: A Phenomenology of Racialized Space and the Limits of Liberalism / Willett, Cynthia -- 13. If You Say So: Feminist Philosophy and Antiracism / La Caze, Marguerite -- References -- Contributors -- Name Index -- Subject Index